My experience with Snap Inc. for the Robotics Engineer role was extremely unprofessional and frustrating.

After an initial HR call in the UAE, I spoke with two engineers from the Vienna office.

One heavily focused on CV-based questions, clearly outside my expertise, which I explicitly stated. Despite this confusing experience, I was invited to a very lengthy, two-day panel. For this, I invested significant time preparing a 30-minute presentation and refreshing my CV knowledge.

The panel questions were largely uninformative and gave the impression the team was unsure whether they even needed a robotics engineer.

I also spent a month preparing for coding exercises, successfully completed them, and received positive feedback from the local HR, who even asked if I would consider relocating.

Despite all this effort, I was rejected without any meaningful feedback, even after following up. I found this extremely rude, given the time and energy I invested.

The same role later appeared under a different title: “Computer Vision Calibration Engineer.”

Overall, this experience demonstrates a lack of basic professional courtesy, poor coordination, and shifting expectations.

I strongly caution anyone in the robotics community against investing time in Snap’s hiring process.