Just interviewed a Snap L4 recently and the dude got all strong hires (incl SD round). I did 30+ onsites and phone interviews and almost nobody got to the end of my question and code it out completely. This Snap guy went in the right direction within 2 minutes of hearing a question (a harder end of LC hard), and completed discussing the solution with me within 10 and coded it out in another 10-15 minutes. Gave him another hard to kill time and he solved it too (didn't ask him to code). This question isn't on LC (yet) so it's unlikely he had seen it before. This guy is easily top 1% of all the candidates interviewing at Google. Are Snap engineers usually like this or just this person? Vote the poll with your experience.
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Snap and Google love leet champs. Now do your work
live and breathe LC
Nowadays companies hire the best leetcoders - not necessarily the best engineers. What makes you think he hasn’t seen the problems before?
Bc it is not on LC? Not sure about his eng skills but he got SH in System design round as well. The dude's intuition is probably just top tier. It's not really something you can just memorize tbh
Your interview process sounds BS
Met a few people like that from Tesla. Btw f you for asking a lc hard lol
Double fuck him for asking two hards.
triple F for also posting about this.
The snap interview is really hard, so I imagine he must be pretty practiced at Leetcode-style interviews.
Are you sure you interviewed a human and not chatGPT?
Snap pays much better than G for coding monkey
Yawn L4 wanking off another L4.
OP was tugging it hard lmao
you met a competitive programmer who's also read books and watched videos about system design. Let's see how well it translates to actual software engineering
LC monkey !
The question i asked him isn't on LC yet
LC monkey doesn’t mean only able to solve the question on it already, means they only play with LC all days and solve all kind of these problems. But not necessarily important to real world issue