Reddit·Software Engineer

Reddit Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

San Francisco, CAPosted Jul 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My connection to Reddit started indirectly—through a Lyft ride where I met a senior engineer and asked if they were hiring.

A recruiter reached out shortly after, and I scheduled a technical phone interview where I used Coderpad. The problem was the kind of coding challenge where the most important part is finishing the core logic, and I didn’t complete it during the call.

The interviewer let me continue working on it over the weekend, and I emailed the completed solution afterward. Honestly, I wasn’t surprised when they didn’t move forward since I had missed the key piece in the live portion.

Even though the result was a no, I still felt really good about how the process ran overall. Everyone I interacted with

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