Snap Software Engineer Interview Questions

Snap Inc. Technical Interview: BFS Grid Traversal for Nearest k Restaurants

The interview started with around 10–15 minutes of background discussion, where the interviewer asked about my experience — especially around backend systems and ML-related work. After that, we moved

Snap Staff SWE Phone Screen Interview – Math.sin(x) Taylor Series Implementation

**Problem Statement** Implement Java's `Math.sin(x)` function using the Taylor Series expansion: $$x - \frac{x^3}{3!} + \frac{x^5}{5!} - \frac{x^7}{7!} \dots$$ **Challenges** 1. **Termination:** The T

Snap Technical Phone Screen Interview Experience and Problem

**Problem Statement** You are given an array `rooms` where each element represents the capacity of a meeting room, and an integer `k` representing the number of people. The goal is to distribute all `

Snap phone screen | L5 | Reject

Hi, I had a phone screen with snap today. Here is the question i was asked. Image region with sum Write code which determines whether the sum of all elements in a...

SnapChat Tech Screen Feb 2024

Connect Pairs (from hacker rank) Input : [Ba, _a, cb, dc] output : _abcd Input : [El, ll, lo, _h, he] output : hello condition : the resultant string should begin with In...

Snap | Seattle | Phone

Interviewed with Snapchat a few days ago Phone Interview: Given a list of strings find if the word is prefix of any word Example: [\'world\', \'word\', \'would\', \'wont\', \'which\', \'hello\'] prefix : \'wo\' I started...

Snapchat | Phone Screen | Senior SDE

Given a mxn Binary matrix print the shortest path from start to end. Start can be any point in the first row and end can be any point in the...

Snap | Santa Monica, CA | phone screen |

One of the strangest experiences I\'ve had. Maybe I dogged a bullet. The interviewer was nice and helpful. It started with a behavioral question. Tell me about a time you had a disagreement...

System Design | SnapChat | Auto delete/vanish of message/Photo after read

How to system design a messenger with this feature? Auto delete/vanish of message/Photo after read

Snap | onsite | length of the shortest path

Given an R x C grid of letters "P", "F", and ".", you have one person "P" and his friends "F". The person will go visit all his friends and can...

Snap | Onsite | Multiple questions

Phone interview \t\tWhy snap? \t\tGiven grid of Babies and Toys, place Nanny at optimal distance from all babies \t\tBest Meeting Point - LeetCode 1. Manager round \tValue based questions \tDesign chess, discuss entities and modelling...

Snapchat Phone Screen

Question - Design a class/method AddAndGetTopK to add a number and get top K frequent elements. Eg - k = 3 4 4,5 4,5,4 => 4,5 4,5,4,6 => 4,5,6 4,5,4,6,5 => 4,5,6 4,5,4,6,5,7 => 4,5,6 4,5,4,6,5,7,7 => 4,5,7 I...

Snapchat - Phone Interview - Reject

Behavioral: - Why Snap? - Talk about a past mistake Coding: https://leetcode.com/problems/palindrome-linked-list/ However, the ListNode was generic but based on the question requirement I used integer as value of each node. After clarifying questions, I explaned...

Snap | SWE | LA | September 2021 [Reject]

Status: 4 YOE Position: L4 SDE at Amazon Location: LA, CA Date: September 2021 Technical phone screen (1 hour): \t https://leetcode.com/problems/combination-sum/ \t* Follow-ups: \t\t https://leetcode.com/problems/combination-sum-ii/ \t\t https://leetcode.com/problems/combination-sum-iii/ * Virtual Onsite: \t Coding: \t\t https://leetcode.com/problems/letter-combinations-of-a-phone-number/ \t\t* https://leetcode.com/problems/decode-ways/ \t* Behavioral \t*...

Snap | NYC | Phone

Interviewed with Snapchat a few months ago Phone Interview: Given a list of strings and a regex like string return all strings that match Example: [\'world\', \'word\', \'would\', \'wont\', \'which\', \'hello\'] \'w3d\' Would return \'world\' and...