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Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

October 11, 2024
Negative ExperienceNo Response

Process

Standard phone screen interview (~30min) with hiring manager, then a few technical assessments (45min-1hr each).

Technical assessments were trivial.

Present your response in a typical LeetCode-style manner by showing a naive brute-force solution, and then pretend to notice an improvement to make in the code, which is the actual solution to that LeetCode problem, and make that change.

Questions

LeetCode question.

What is the runtime/space complexity?

How would you optimize this?

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.