Company profile
Snap
Snap operates Snapchat, the Spectacles AR glasses, and a meaningful AR developer ecosystem via Lens Studio. Loops are LA-flavoured and fast - three to four rounds of coding plus a design round, with a strong product-sense bar for client roles and a hardware-systems lean for Spectacles.
Interview process
With roughly 5K employees and headquarters in Santa Monica, US, Snap hires through dedicated recruiting teams, and loops at companies of this size tend to be structured, with each round scored against a written rubric. Interviewers are usually trained engineers and managers rather than the hiring manager alone, and candidates for frontend engineer, analytics engineer, bi engineer roles typically face separate rounds for core skills, design or case thinking, and behavioral fit. Open a role below for the questions and focus areas specific to that function.
Questions and process by role
Snap hires across several engineering and product functions, and the loop shifts with each one. Open a role for the reported questions, the round-by-round focus, and a salary band for that function.
- Frontend engineer
Frontend engineer interview questions and process at Snap.
engineering - Analytics engineer
Analytics engineer interview questions and process at Snap.
data - BI engineer
BI engineer interview questions and process at Snap.
data - Data engineer
Data engineer interview questions and process at Snap.
data - Data platform engineer
Data platform engineer interview questions and process at Snap.
data - Data scientist
Data scientist interview questions and process at Snap.
data - ETL engineer
ETL engineer interview questions and process at Snap.
data - Backend engineer
Backend engineer interview questions and process at Snap.
engineering
Practice Snap coding problems
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Salary signal
Approximate senior median pay for Snap's core roles, anchored to San Francisco and modeled from BLS, ONS, and Levels.fyi reference medians. These are market bands for the role and city, not Snap offers. Open a role for the full city-by-city table.
Employee reviews
Snap holds a 3.9 Glassdoor rating. External review scores are directional signals. Treat them as context alongside the specific team, location, level, and hiring manager you are interviewing with.
Glassdoor 3.9