I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Snapsheet in Feb 2025
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I interviewed at Snapsheet
Interview
During a phone call, the recruiter gave a brief introduction to the company and the location problem. They don't ask lots of questions. Just telling me something. And it lasts for about twenty minutes.
1. Call with Recruiter
2. Take home HackerRank with 3 questions
a. Easy algo
b. SQL query
c. Easy Frontend Api implementation
3. Meet with engineering manager to discuss resume and some backend questions
4. 3 Final interviews. Each 1 hour (30 min behavioral, 30 min hackerrank).
a. Database design (rental car application)
b. Database/Api design (TinyURL)
c. Frontend app pseudocode (Google Maps type implementation)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a Tiny Url application API and discuss system design
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Snapsheet in Jan 2024
Interview
Overall, it was a very positive interview process with good communication and very engaged interviewers.
First step was a 90 minute take-home code challenge with three parts: a relatively easy algorithm, a database query, and an API request with JSON parsing.
Next step was 3, 1-hour interview sessions:
- Engineering manager interview, part behavioral and part live code challenge (easy/medium leetcode)
- Lead Engineer interview: half was a code challenge (build a binary search tree), which is very hard if, like me, you don't have a CS degree and haven't done enough grinding on leetcode yet. But the interviewer was super helpful and made it more of a pairing session instead of watching me flounder.
The other half was system design (a craigslist of sorts).
- Interview with Director of Engineering that was part behavioral and part database and architectural, with questions around AWS S3.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Build a binary search tree.
How would you build a variation of craigslist.
How would you architect an app that allows users to upload photos.