Snowflake Software Engineering Intern Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Snowflake.
Snowflake
Software Engineering Intern
Intern Difficult Neutral experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Take home Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding
I did an online assessment with 2-3 LeetCode questions on Hackerrank, which were 2 Easy/Medium and 1 Medium. Then I had 2 back-to-back 1-hour coding interviews on CoderPad. In the first one, I got a medium LeetCode question but got stuck. In the second, I got a medium-hard LeetCode question that was tricky due to how it was worded. I took a while to solve it, so I only ended up doing 2 questions in total, though they probably had more in mind.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- A question that could be solved with a 2 pointer approach
- A question solvable with HashMap or Recursion
Snowflake
Software Intern
Intern Difficult Neutral experience No offer 1 round
Interview process
Take home
Interview formats
Coding
Did an online assessment with three coding problems: a tough DP one, a sliding window string problem that was easy/medium, and another tough graph problem. Got the first two done perfectly, but the graph one timed out on some test cases. Still waiting to hear back.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- One leetcode hard dp problem
- One leetcode easy/medium sliding window string problem (vowel substring)
- One graph problem probably leetcode hard.
Snowflake
Software Intern
Intern Average Positive experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Take home Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Technical
I had a code test with 3 algorithm problems. Then, there were 2 technical interviews, and each had an algorithm challenge on codepad. I struggled with the first technical interview, taking a while to debug the challenge, but I passed and handled optimization requests smoothly in the second one. I got rejected 3 weeks later.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- What is the longest common sequence?
- How would you approach servers resource allocation, considering time complexity and optimization?
Snowflake Software Engineering Intern Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Snowflake interview reports.
“What is the longest common sequence?”
Read reports →“What's a variation of Gridland?”
Read reports →“Can you find the closest pair of points?”
Read reports →“How would you design a database cache and implement a distributed cache?”
Read reports →“Tell me about a problem related to disk arrays.”
Read report →“How would you approach servers resource allocation, considering time complexity and optimization?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 9 Snowflake interview reports.