I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Reddit (New York, NY) in Oct 2021
Interview
Phone screening with the recruiter, then a technical screening with an iOS engineer at the company.
The technical screening was 30 minutes of Q&A about core iOS concepts, then a 30 minute period of time to solve an algorithm question.
Throughout the Q&A, it felt like the interview wasn't interested in being in the interview. When asked a question, I would give a detailed response, and then after looking at their notes would ask me the next question, to which I had already answered with a previous response. This happened for several questions, which made me wonder if it was just an "ask all the questions to tick the boxes" sort of situation.
During the coding portion, the interviewer would interrupt me with things like "there's an error at the end of the function" because I hadn't written a return statement yet, but was trying to compose some pseudocode for the algorithm and wasn't worried about my return statement. Interruptions like this occurred frequently, and ultimately I ran out of time to complete the problem completely (Took my code to a playground afterwards and realized I was just a couple lines away from finishing, but the stress of an interview situation kept me from seeing it).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe the lifecycle of a UIViewController.
Which event is called before a UIViewController is displayed on screen?
More mundane questions like this
What is Grand Central Dispatch? What is an alternative?
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Reddit in July 2024
Interview
I only made it to the 1st technical interview. Be prepared to do live coding on a platform called CodeSignal. It has code completion support to some extent. Be very good at fundamental data structures like arrays, dictionaries, stacks, queues and writing recursive functions etc before facing this interview.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
You can actually find some real interview questions from other reviews, just make sure to go through all of them before the interview.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Reddit (New York, NY) in Mar 2023
Interview
Other than the standard recruiter call, there are three main steps that I went through: 1. Phone screen. Leetcode-style interview with some practical domain knowledge questions 2. Hiring Manager chat with some behavioral questions, pretty standard stuff here 3. Onsite, 2 coding rounds and 1 system design, coupled with a hiring manager chat for more behavioral questions Overall the process took ~3 weeks and I thought all the folks I met were driven, technically sharp, and good communicators.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I'm under NDA, but the onsite questions were all very fair and practical -- felt like I was basically working alongside a colleague to solve a practical coding challenge together.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Reddit
Interview
Had the initial discussion with the recruiter. The conversation went south when describing how scrutinizingly long the interviewing process was/is alongside the requirements for a 5 hour panel interview and data structure & algorithm questions. Ultimately, I noted to the recruiter this would not be a good use of my time. The recruiter's attitude turned a tad hostile and unprofessional. It was deemed this would not be a good cultural fit and although I rejected them, they sent me a rejection email for the position (which I found comical).