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Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

March 2, 2022
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Process

  1. Applied online
  2. Recruiter call to find fit
  3. Phone screen with a technical question
  4. On-site with 1 manager interview, 1 behavioral interview, and 3 technical interviews (1 algorithm, 1 general-purpose programming, 1 system design).

The phone screen featured a difficult-to-implement, but not super difficult, algorithm question preceded by some trivia about data structures.

The on-site technical questions included a system design question about building a feature quickly and what tooling would be used, as well as how to adjust as the system scales. There was also a more algorithm-heavy programming question and a more pragmatic one. I bombed the algorithm question but still received the offer based on my performance in the other interviews.

Questions

Given a dataset about pageviews, calculate some analytics.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 44 interview experiences for the Reddit Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

23%
Pass Rate

Reddit's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive45%
Neutral14%
Negative41%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Reddit's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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