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1. Initial screening round (1 hour) : One coding question, medium level on leetcode. 2. Onsite round (5 rounds) : 4 Technical round + 1 Behavioral round. Round 1 & 2 : Design a game which has multiple phases with increasing difficulty of each phase. Round 3 : Two questions - one easy and one medium level Round 4 : one hard level trie related question Round 5 : very interactive behavioral round for 30 mins.
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Software Engineer New Grad

Interviewed at Snap

3.4
Jun 17, 2021

1. Initial screening round (1 hour) : One coding question, medium level on leetcode. 2. Onsite round (5 rounds) : 4 Technical round + 1 Behavioral round. Round 1 & 2 : Design a game which has multiple phases with increasing difficulty of each phase. Round 3 : Two questions - one easy and one medium level Round 4 : one hard level trie related question Round 5 : very interactive behavioral round for 30 mins.

You have an unsorted array of integers and a function........string getCategory(integer)........which deterministically returns 1 of three possible strings: "low", "medium", or "high", depending on the input integer. You need to output an array with all the "low" numbers at the bottom, all the "medium" numbers in the middle, and all the "high" numbers at the top. This is basically a partial sort. Within each category, the order of the numbers does not matter...For example, you might be give the array [5,7,2,9,1,14,12,10,5,3]. For input integers 1 - 3, getCategory(integer) returns "low", for 4 - 10 it returns "medium," and for 11 - 15 it returns "high". You could output an array (or modify the given array) that looks like this: [3,1,2,5,5,9,7,10,14,12]
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Software Engineering New Grad

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Oct 27, 2015

You have an unsorted array of integers and a function........string getCategory(integer)........which deterministically returns 1 of three possible strings: "low", "medium", or "high", depending on the input integer. You need to output an array with all the "low" numbers at the bottom, all the "medium" numbers in the middle, and all the "high" numbers at the top. This is basically a partial sort. Within each category, the order of the numbers does not matter...For example, you might be give the array [5,7,2,9,1,14,12,10,5,3]. For input integers 1 - 3, getCategory(integer) returns "low", for 4 - 10 it returns "medium," and for 11 - 15 it returns "high". You could output an array (or modify the given array) that looks like this: [3,1,2,5,5,9,7,10,14,12]

NOTE: Apparently this question is banned but my interviewed went through about 3 questions that I had already seen so I just asked him to give me a question that was really hard and he didn't think I could solve within the interview time. Given a matrix with elements representing the heights of hills, find the longest ski path (numbers strictly descending) in the matrix. The hard part was that you were allowed to start and end anywhere.
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Software Engineer New Grad

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Mar 16, 2019

NOTE: Apparently this question is banned but my interviewed went through about 3 questions that I had already seen so I just asked him to give me a question that was really hard and he didn't think I could solve within the interview time. Given a matrix with elements representing the heights of hills, find the longest ski path (numbers strictly descending) in the matrix. The hard part was that you were allowed to start and end anywhere.

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