Reddit Experience · Jun 2025 · Bay Area

Snowflake Interview Experiences with IC1 / IC2 Rounds

SWE Phone Screen Hard
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Interview Experience

EDIT: I got the job. I have put a detailed comment in this particular post. So, please go through it properly before DM-ing me. Hey folks! I’ve got upcoming Software Engineer interviews

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EDIT: I got the job. I have put a detailed comment in this particular post. So, please go through it properly before DM-ing me. Hey folks! I’ve got upcoming Software Engineer interviews at

Snowflake and would really appreciate any recent experiences you can share. Location: Bellevue / Bay Area

Here’s my interview structure: *

First two rounds: Coding (1 Hard or 2 Medium LeetCode-style problems, 60 minutes each) *

Final virtual/onsite (full loop) rounds: *

Round 1 Same Coding format (60 minutes) *

Round 2 Behavioral (60 minutes) *

Round 3 System Design (60 minutes) I’d love to hear about: * Types of questions you got (DP, Graphs, Trees, Math, etc.) * Any curveballs in the behavioral or system design interviews * Overall difficulty and vibe Any tips or anecdotes are super appreciated. Thanks in advance!

About This Question

This is a candidate experience report from a snowflake interview for a swe role during the phone screen round reported in 2025.

It covers the following topics: Graph, Binary Tree, System Design, Dynamic Programming, Behavioral .

Difficulty rating: Hard