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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Amsterdam, Netherlands

April 1, 2022

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Interviews include:

System design
Live-coding (LeetCode-style)
Cross-functional interview with a product manager
Hiring manager interview (though not for the team applied to)

Expect at least 8 hours of interviews, with significant reshuffling and interviewers sometimes not showing up. The process appears disorganized, but the people are perceived as laid-back and friendly.

Questions

How would your former managers rate you from 1-10?

How would you decide whether a feature is worth working on?

Describe career highlight/lowlights.

Live-coding (similar to medium-difficulty challenges on HackerRank)

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Reddit Senior Software Engineer role in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

Reddit's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Amsterdam, Netherlands is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral0%

Negative50%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Reddit's Senior Software Engineer interview process in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Reddit Work Experiences

4.0

Changed a lot since IPO, but there are still good people there

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

July 2, 2025

Pros: Good salary and benefits, fun people.

Cons: It has become ruthlessly corporate pretty quickly.

4.0

Changed a lot since IPO, but there are still good people there

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

July 2, 2025

Pros: Good salary and benefits, fun people.

Cons: It has become ruthlessly corporate pretty quickly.

5.0

Overall, a very cool place to work. Slightly less fun since the IPO, but overall, I would recommend it

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

April 30, 2025

Pros: Great people Interesting problems Opportunity for advancement

Cons: Sometimes there's too much bureaucracy; performance cycles are a significant amount of work.

5.0

Overall, a very cool place to work. Slightly less fun since the IPO, but overall, I would recommend it

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

April 30, 2025

Pros: Great people Interesting problems Opportunity for advancement

Cons: Sometimes there's too much bureaucracy; performance cycles are a significant amount of work.

3.0

Going downhill to work for

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

March 31, 2025

Pros: Good vision, strong desire to do right by Reddit users, seemingly strong company financials.

Cons: Ads management/leadership is a mess. There's too much focus on revenue per head, losing focus on "remember the human," and ruthlessly cutting costs. One manager change is all it takes to go from good to bad.

3.0

Going downhill to work for

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

March 31, 2025

Pros: Good vision, strong desire to do right by Reddit users, seemingly strong company financials.

4.0

Changed a lot since IPO, but there are still good people there

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

July 2, 2025

Pros: Good salary and benefits, fun people.

Cons: It has become ruthlessly corporate pretty quickly.

4.0
Changed a lot since IPO, but there are still good people there
Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee
Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
July 2, 2025
Pros: Good salary and benefits, fun people.
Cons: It has become ruthlessly corporate pretty quickly.

5.0

Overall, a very cool place to work. Slightly less fun since the IPO, but overall, I would recommend it

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

April 30, 2025

Pros: Great people Interesting problems Opportunity for advancement

Cons: Sometimes there's too much bureaucracy; performance cycles are a significant amount of work.

5.0
Overall, a very cool place to work. Slightly less fun since the IPO, but overall, I would recommend it
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
April 30, 2025
Pros: Great people Interesting problems Opportunity for advancement
Cons: Sometimes there's too much bureaucracy; performance cycles are a significant amount of work.

3.0

Going downhill to work for

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

March 31, 2025

Pros: Good vision, strong desire to do right by Reddit users, seemingly strong company financials.

3.0
Going downhill to work for
Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee
March 31, 2025
Pros: Good vision, strong desire to do right by Reddit users, seemingly strong company financials.
Cons: Ads management/leadership is a mess. There's too much focus on revenue per head, losing focus on "remember the human," and ruthlessly cutting costs. One manager change is all it takes to go from good to bad.

Reddit Interview Questions

Word Ladder

Hard

Transform one word into another, one letter at a time, using only words from a given dictionary. Find the shortest sequence of words to reach the target.

ArraysGraphs

Number of Ways to Buy Pens and Pencils

Medium

You're given a budget and prices for pens and pencils. Determine how many different combinations of buying pens and pencils you can afford within your budget.

Greedy Algorithms

LRU Cache

Medium

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

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