Snapchat Software Engineer Interview Experience — Two Bugs, No Time, and a Rejection

Snapchat·Software Engineer·Aug 2026
Technical ScreenRejectedmedium

The phone-screen question was LeetCode 947. I implemented it using breadth-first search.

Near the end, my code still had two bugs. I found one of them myself, while the interviewer pointed out the other one. After that, I ran the test cases. By the time the tests were finished, there was no time left in the interview.

I do not know whether the interviewer had prepared a follow-up question, because we never reached one.

Two days after the phone screen, I received a rejection.

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Interview at a glance

Company
Snapchat
Role
Software Engineer
Rounds
Technical Screen
Outcome
Rejected
Difficulty
medium
Interview date
Aug 2026
Questions from this interview
1 question

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