User-nt414Aug 20, 2026

Snap onsite had an island perimeter twist I hadn't seen before

Hack2hire Community · 2026-08-20T15:00:00.443Z

Just wrapped up my Snap loop, five rounds total. Still waiting to hear back so nothing to report on the outcome yet. Phone screen was a duplicate finder that forced you to write your own directory traversal instead of using anything built in. Threw me off at first but I got through it. The onsite coding round was the one that stuck with me tbh. Grid of land and water, and instead of counting islands like the usual version, you had to return the max perimeter across all of them. Every land cell a...

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mchenAug 21, 2026

How was the SD round paced? I've heard Snap interviewers can be all over the place on those.

vikramreddy1995Aug 21, 2026

Pretty reasonable for me, we just went through story creation and distribution at a normal pace.

User-n9mghAug 20, 2026

The duplicate finder phone screen got me too, felt weird not being able to use the standard walker.

jacobmiller2000Aug 20, 2026

Good luck, hope the stack ranking doesn't get you after a loop like that.

gracewang02Aug 20, 2026

That perimeter twist is a new one to me too. Did they let you draw it out or was it all verbal?

vikramreddy1995Aug 20, 2026

Could sketch on the shared doc, helped a lot for the diagonal follow up honestly.

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