Reddit Software Engineer interview experience (2023)

Reddit Software Engineer interview experience

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Kyiv, KyivPosted Mar 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with recruiter outreach and then a technical screen where I talked through a challenging algorithmic question that wasn’t super LeetCode, plus a bit of trivia about data structures beforehand.

I remember it taking real focus—enough that it didn’t feel like a quick pass/fail coding exercise.

After that, I went to an onsite with multiple rounds laid out back to back: a manager interview plus behavioral, and then a small set of technical interviews. The technical portion included both system design and programming/algorithm work; the programming question was more algorithm-heavy, and the system design round asked me to think about building a feature quickly and then adjusting as scale increased. Even though I struggled on one of the algorithm parts, the overall impression from the

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