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Staff Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

June 1, 2024
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Typical tech interview process, if not slightly long.

After HR and technical screening, I completed architectural and cross-functional interviews. Standard conversations; you just need familiarity with the full-stack picture of managing a web app.

I also did two live programming interview challenges, which boiled down to transforming a data structure and writing vanilla JavaScript for a pretty directionless example UI. Nothing real-world-related or very valid for evaluating actual engineering capabilities. It's just basically the FAANG mentality of hiring people who are good at 30 minutes of speed programming some throwaway code.

Tempting to say it was a negative experience due to the irrelevant content, but everyone was pleasant, and this is not uncommon. So, I guess it was neutral.

Questions

Transforming a flat data structure to a tree.

Building a web form and dynamic table with vanilla JS.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Reddit Staff Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

0%
Pass Rate

Reddit's interview process for their Staff Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive33%
Neutral33%
Negative33%

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