Reddit Account Manager Interview Questions
& Process

The interview process at Reddit is incredibly tedious. If you're considering applying, ensure you are informed of the complete process and its length beforehand. I made the mistake of not asking how many steps there would be and endured a recruiter screening, two interviews with the hiring manager, three team interviews, and a final one with leadership. That was a total of seven 30-minute interviews. You might think it's on me for getting this far and not asking when it would be over, but after investing 3.5 hours I was feeling optimistic about an offer. Instead of an offer, I was asked to do an assignment analyzing campaign performance. At this point, I felt they were prolonging the process while considering other candidates, and so I withdrew my application. Given my relevant work experience to the role, the interview process seemed unnecessary and excessive.

This was one of the best and most pleasant interview processes I've been through. Big thanks to Max for staying in touch and giving me all the info I needed to get ready. Everyone I spoke with was nice and seemed interested in our talks.

So it starts with a phone call with Talent Acquisition, who was really nice and explained the whole process. They really value authenticity and like hearing about times you messed up but learned from it, not just when things go perfectly. They apparently live by ‘REMEMBER THE HUMAN, FEEDBACK IS A GIFT,’ meaning they give feedback to candidates, which is pretty cool and different. They also hate egos, which I love. They told me to prep like it’s a client meeting. The actual interviews start with the hiring manager. Then, if you pass that, you get a case study to prep for 3 days and present in a 30-minute panel interview with four people. The first 5 mins are intros, 10-15 for the presentation, and the rest for Q&A from the panel, but you have to manage the time or you’re out. After the panel, you do 30-minute 1:1 interviews with each of the four panel members. Finally, there’s one last 30-minute interview with the hiring manager again. So, including the first TA call, it’s a total of eight 30-minute interviews. Honestly, that’s way too many interviews, even though they told me upfront. It feels like they don’t ‘remember the human’ with such a drawn-out process, especially when you’re interviewing elsewhere. It shouldn’t take more than four interviews to know if someone’s a good fit. Then I had a 30-min call with the hiring manager. I kind of felt like I was being racially profiled because of one question he asked about my background, and it felt like he’d already made up his mind. But he still said my answers were ‘awesome.’ He ended the call right on time. A week later, I followed up with TA, and within hours got the rejection email saying it was a competitive pool. I asked for the feedback, referencing their ‘feedback is a gift’ thing, and he opened the email immediately but never responded. So yeah, my gut feeling about the hiring manager call was probably right, and even if not, their ‘remember the human’ thing clearly didn’t apply here. It felt like they were just upselling Reddit, and the lack of feedback after all that is just disappointing.