Snap·Software Engineer

Snap Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Mar 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I got past recruiting, my process ended up looking like a couple of long, purely interview-style coding sessions.

It was virtual and split into two one-hour interviews, and in each, a small behavioral slice came first and the rest was dedicated to the technical portion. The technical problems landed in the DSA / LeetCode style universe—hash maps and traversal-style questions came up, and I was expected to talk through how I was thinking as I coded.

What surprised me was how consistent the mechanics were: no OA, no big take-home, just live work in a coding environment where I could see the test behavior as I iterated. In one of the sessions, there was even another person quietly observing, which felt odd

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