I was contacted by a recruiter for an interview. I had not applied online.

Decided to see what life at Snapchat would be like, so I started the process.

• Initial recruiter call.
• Unfortunately, they interview for a general role, not for a specific team (like Google, they seem to prefer generalist coders).

I had my one-hour video call with an engineer. Their tech failed multiple times, and we had to reschedule. The recruiters were horrible at keeping me updated.

The actual video call was 30 minutes of talking about my past coding work and high-level architecture questions. Then, I went online to do one coding question.

It was not well-defined. They expected you to have a fully working algorithm in 20 minutes, which was kind of unreasonable.