Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - New York, New York

January 1, 2022

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A recruiter reached out to me via email and asked a few questions about me.

They gave me a basic LeetCode question and used CodeSignal as an IDE. A senior software engineer was present on Google Meet and would often offer support during the interview.

I was given the status of my application a few days after the interview.

Questions

LeetCode question on using sets to get the best price of a product.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Reddit Software Engineer (Internship) role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

50%

Pass Rate

Reddit's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in New York, New York is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Reddit's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in New York, New York.

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