Technical Screen

A Vague Distributed Tree Counting Design Problem

SnowflakeSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · May 2026

Phone Screen 1 The interviewer gave me a distributed tree counting problem that took me a while to even understand. There was no starter code or example — he just said to imagine tree nodes distributed across different places on a network, and my job was to design a class to accomplish that. The problem was way too vague at the start, and we spent a long time discussing what exactly he wanted. I…

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