Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

March 4, 2023

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process involved two phone screens followed by an onsite interview.

Communication after the onsite was inconsistent, and ultimately, the company ghosted me, failing to provide interview results. This was unprofessional.

The questions were not difficult but required preparation.

Questions

Textbook system design questions.
Leetcode mediums.
Short behavioral questions.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 43 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

Positive44%

Neutral14%

Negative42%

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

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.

Linked ListsHash TableDesign