Snap·Software Engineer

Snap Software Engineer interview experience

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London, EnglandPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My early steps were pretty straightforward and standard: there was an initial online test, followed by a second online technical interview.

The questions in both were LeetCode-style, and the pace felt designed to see whether I could consistently translate problem statements into working solutions.

The final phase I reached ended up being a more compact technical loop—just two rounds, both technical coding interviews. The difficulty felt medium overall, but one of the questions became genuinely challenging: a graph traversal problem that involved caching. That was the moment where the interview stopped feeling like “typical practice problems” and started feeling more like a test of careful state management.

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