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Two Bugs, No Time, and a Rejection

SnapchatSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

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, becaus…

Shared by a candidate · reported Aug 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.