User-mfurbMay 13, 2026

Snap Interview Experience

Hack2hire Community · 2026-05-13T00:00:00.089Z

Snap - Interview Experience - Software Engineer Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 3 Phone screen: top-K stream problem. Passed. Onsite: sliding window round then something with a trie, SD was news aggregator without RSS (must scrape). Coding was fine. SD ran out of time. Got rejected. Bar is high.

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Replies (4)

ethanliu4829May 13, 2026

bar at snap has gotten noticeably higher in the last year. more candidates fewer spots

priyashah94May 13, 2026

coding fine SD fail seems to come up a lot in snap threads

oliviabrownMay 13, 2026

top-K stream came up in my phone screen too. good prep overlap

gracewangMay 13, 2026

snap SD was tight on time when I went through too. news aggregator is tricky to scope well

ryanzhangMay 13, 2026

yeah 45 min was not enough for that scope. should have cut the design earlier