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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Los Angeles, California

January 1, 2021

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Great experience. The team really showed the positives of Snapchat.

It was a tough but fair interview. The process was well-rounded and focused on important aspects of the job.

I liked the focus on culture and appreciated that there was a culture-specific interview. This showed when I joined, and I ended up working with great people.

Questions

Reverse a linked list, the classic problem.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 25 interview experiences for the Snap Software Engineer role in Los Angeles, California.

Success Rate

12%

Pass Rate

Snap's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Los Angeles, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive44%

Neutral28%

Negative28%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Snap's Software Engineer interview process in Los Angeles, California.

Snap Work Experiences

Not what it looks like

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

Pros: You work in the product. You can have direct impact (and can get you fired too). Many new things to be done.

Cons: - Long hours. - Pay is "good" but less than any other cool public company. - Constant layoffs and uncertainty (today your stock is 20, tomorrow it's just 5). - CEO is awful.

Not what it looks like

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

Pros: You work in the product. You can have direct impact (and can get you fired too). Many new things to be done.

Cons: - Long hours. - Pay is "good" but less than any other cool public company. - Constant layoffs and uncertainty (today your stock is 20, tomorrow it's just 5). - CEO is awful.

Cool Team, Secretive Company

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

January 15, 2017

Pros: You work with the coolest people in the Los Angeles area! Teammates are usually helpful and responsive.

Cons: It's a highly secretive company. You sometimes read about new features in the headlines.

Cool Team, Secretive Company

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

January 15, 2017

Pros: You work with the coolest people in the Los Angeles area! Teammates are usually helpful and responsive.

Cons: It's a highly secretive company. You sometimes read about new features in the headlines.

Great company to work for

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

Pros: Lots of freedom on projects; you aren’t just a code monkey, you can actually be impactful. Work with a lot of smart people. A lot of Googlers go to Snap after a couple of years at Google, so you meet a lot of very smart people in general. High TC. Awesome benefits.

Cons: Forced RTO. Not all office locations offer lunch.

Great company to work for

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

Pros: Lots of freedom on projects; you aren’t just a code monkey, you can actually be impactful. Work with a lot of smart people. A lot of Googlers go to Snap after a couple of years at Google, so you meet a lot of very smart people in general. High TC. Awesome benefits.

Cons: Forced RTO. Not all office locations offer lunch.

Not what it looks like

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

Pros: You work in the product. You can have direct impact (and can get you fired too). Many new things to be done.

Cons: - Long hours. - Pay is "good" but less than any other cool public company. - Constant layoffs and uncertainty (today your stock is 20, tomorrow it's just 5). - CEO is awful.

1.0
Not what it looks like
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Los Angeles, California, United States
July 11, 2019
Pros: You work in the product. You can have direct impact (and can get you fired too). Many new things to be done.
Cons: - Long hours. - Pay is "good" but less than any other cool public company. - Constant layoffs and uncertainty (today your stock is 20, tomorrow it's just 5). - CEO is awful.

Cool Team, Secretive Company

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

January 15, 2017

Pros: You work with the coolest people in the Los Angeles area! Teammates are usually helpful and responsive.

Cons: It's a highly secretive company. You sometimes read about new features in the headlines.

4.0
Cool Team, Secretive Company
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Los Angeles, California, United States
January 15, 2017
Pros: You work with the coolest people in the Los Angeles area! Teammates are usually helpful and responsive.
Cons: It's a highly secretive company. You sometimes read about new features in the headlines.

Great company to work for

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

Pros: Lots of freedom on projects; you aren’t just a code monkey, you can actually be impactful. Work with a lot of smart people. A lot of Googlers go to Snap after a couple of years at Google, so you meet a lot of very smart people in general. High TC. Awesome benefits.

Cons: Forced RTO. Not all office locations offer lunch.

5.0
Great company to work for
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Los Angeles, California, United States
June 23, 2023
Pros: Lots of freedom on projects; you aren’t just a code monkey, you can actually be impactful. Work with a lot of smart people. A lot of Googlers go to Snap after a couple of years at Google, so you meet a lot of very smart people in general. High TC. Awesome benefits.
Cons: Forced RTO. Not all office locations offer lunch.

Snap Interview Questions

LRU Cache

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.

Minimum Window Substring

Find the smallest substring within a larger string that contains all the characters of a target string. You need to locate the minimum window that satisfies this condition.

StringsSliding Windows

Word Ladder

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.

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