I had snap phone interview last Wednesday. The interviewer dialed in late since there was some internet issue at home. Interview started with basic introduction for 5mins Then interviewer gave a problem and asked me to solve it. Since the interview started late they said it's ok if I don't complete the problem and working approach should be fine. So far so good. For next 20 mins we discussed about all the possibilities, corner cases and agreed upon a solution. I started writing the code with comments (since interviewer is not that familiar with my coding language). Completed it in 15 mins. Since we had 15 more mins, interviewer asked me to run the code and add test cases which I did well ahead of time. All the tests passed. Interviewer did say they dint expected me to complete the code and add test cases... So far so good. Got rejection email this week 😀😀😀 I have cleared many phone interviews and onsites in last last year. I do have few offers now. But I still feel bad since I thought this was one of the best interview performance by me. I did go to onsite 2 years back with snap which I failed because I screwed up one of the design rounds.. this time I really don't know what could have gone wrong Blind basics TC: 370k L5 11yoe(3 at Google. Thanks to downlevelling, joined as L4)
It was probably just for interview practice I’ve had the same thing where I give optimal solution and everything passes and still get rejected
What language did you use? Just curious about it
C#
Happened with me at Apple. Interviewer told me about the team, asked me about my past experience, told me how relevant my work was to their projects. Gave me a leetcode easy which I solved within 5 minutes with tests. And the interviewer ended the interview 5 minutes early. Next day, got a rejection
Role was filled internally.
Happened to me at Zillow, guess we’ll never know
Whenever this happens it’s probably because the interviewer expected you to finish the first question (optimal solution, corner cases, working code, and tests) in 15-20 mins so you could do a second question
Yes, in the Google phone interview I did the question perfectly and was very happy with my performance. Turns out it was a warm-up question.
Nah. The problem was somewhat similar to LC hard problem. I don't think 15-20 mins is fair time. It took that time just to discuss approaches & corner cases.
Tbh most strong companies (even Google) expects 2 questions (at least one med/hard) in an interview. My interview at snap on one round was 1 hard 1 med/hard
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