kevinliu_engMay 31, 2026
Snowflake SWE phone screen - 2 rounds, got the offer
Interview Experiences
snowflake
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the cake BFS is basically walls and gates with renamed labels. if you know that problem the pattern is obvious
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the DFS vs BFS thing is a known snowflake quirk. they really want multi-source BFS for the cake problem, don't deviate
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yeah the interviewer wasn't hostile about it, just clearly had a preferred solution. once i pivoted it was fine
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logging library SD is confusing because it's not a traditional system design. it's mostly about batching policy and client-side buffering
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congrats. what level was this for?
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