Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Snap (Venice, CA)
Colloquio
Interview was pretty straight forward. If you have a good programming background from working in personal projects or Open Source you'll do fine. I also recommend "Cracking the Coding Interview" book, there are some good questions there.
There are 3 rounds of interviews. Here is my experience
I received a phone call for around 20 mins. It was about C++ although the position was mostly about Python and Java. Not sure why they asked me about C++. I answered as best as I could and after the phone call I received an email about 2 mins later saying I got passed to the 2nd round. I honestly didn't think I made it since I answered horribly (In my opinion).
Second interview went smoother, it was a Python programming exercise via Skype, it took around 1 hour in total with answering problem and asking the engineer questions about SnapChat. Don't worry, if you know Python you'll do fine. About a day later I got an email saying I got to interview in person and they flew me into LA to their HQ. They paid for the flight and hotel which was nice.
Third and final interview is a whole day kinda deal, the engineers beat you with problems and pick your brain to see how you think. Questions were average and I answered all of them(with the exception of the final one which I failed miserably). They also have you hang out with an engineer during lunch to see if your a culture fit, the guy I was with was pretty cool.
About a week later I got the email that I didn't make it. Oh well.
Domande di colloquio [1]
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If you know algorithms and some programming you'll do better than me. Serisouly
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Snap (Santa Monica, CA)
Colloquio
Hard but interesting. Had to go through 1 HM round, 2 coding rounds and 2 systems design rounds. Coding round was hit counter, and message recommendation system. The System design rounds were a bit challenging.
Domande di colloquio [1]
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Design a recommendation system for messaging to predict the next word while typing
For the technical rounds, I was asked leetcode style questions. Need to practice Data structures and algorithms in order to do well on the interviews. It's important to explain the code as you go along and clarfiy any questions with the interviewer.
Interviewer is not good, has an accent and doesn’t point you in the right direction. Did not seem to be on your side the whole time. It was not a very nice experience.
