Snapchat Mock Interview

Practice 28 Snapchat interview questions covering product thinking, AR innovation, and Gen Z engagement.

Question 7 of 28

Would you say that you are a goal oriented on the job? What would I be able to do as your manager to help you achieve your goals if hired here at Snapchat?

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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

At the heart of this question lies your interviewers desire to see what motivates you as a potential employee at Snapchat. Make it clear to your interviewer that you certainly are motivated by on the job goals and do this by using an example of a time where you were motivated by and achieved a goal. Then, think deeply about the type of manager that you like to work for in terms of goal setting and helping our achieve your goals. Let your interviewer know what type of management styles you appreciate the most while being open to any style.

Ryan Brunner

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

"I would definitely say that I am goal oriented on the job in wanting to contribute any way that I can to the overall benefit of the organization. In my current organization, our leadership focuses on overall sales numbers at the end of the year. To help achieve these goals, our department creates our own goals to help achieve the sales numbers needed to succeed. Last year, one of those goals was to be as creative as possible in our user experience design processes. With the launch of an exciting new app midyear, sales numbers skyrocketed and our department was instrumental in that. For me, it was important that we determined our goals as a team with the final stamp of approval from our manager. While this style of management really helped motivate me, I can thrive under any management style as long as expectations and goals for my work are clearly set."

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28Snapchat Interview Questions & Answers

1.Looking at our products and services, what do you think we do better at Snapchat than any of our competitors?

2.At Snapchat, we take security risks very importantly in our products. In your experience, what are the biggest security risks in software and what is your experience in any prevention methods?

3.What software analysis and design tools do you have familiarity working with?

4.If hired here at Snapchat, what do you feel would be the biggest hurdle for you to overcome from the start?

5.A huge part of our business here at Snapchat is designing software for iOS. In this role, how would you steer away from retain cycles when using closures in Swift programming language?

6.If you were asked to review a colleague's code that they had written, what key things would you look for?

7.Would you say that you are a goal oriented on the job? What would I be able to do as your manager to help you achieve your goals if hired here at Snapchat?

8.Here at Snapchat, we strive for continuous delivery and continuous deployment with our software. Are you familiar with these processes in your current work?

9.Do you have any unique skills or past work experiences that we can't see on your resume that would benefit the team here at Snapchat?

10.If you can, please provide your thoughts on the function of managed object context in developing iOS apps and software.

11.In SQL, how do you explain the differences between clustered and non-clustered indexes? Can you name a time that you used each?

12.What programming languages would you consider yourself fluent in?

13.Talk about your previous user interface design experience in detail. Why do you feel that this experience will translate well to this role with Snapchat?

14.Do you have experience working with different CASE tools? If so, what do you have experience with?

15.What data cleaning methods are you familiar with and comfortable using if hired for this role at Snapchat?

16.If hired here at Snapchat and tasked with helping design a UI for a new mobile app, what important factors would you consider in that design?

17.What is one unique personality trait you possess that would help you be successful in this role with Snapchat?

18.In your current work, what are the important steps you take in the data validation process?

19.In designing Android software, what is your experience using parcelable versus serializable within an app?

20.If hired here at Snapchat to develop iOS and Android software, when would you use a fragment rather than an activity?

21.If hired for this position here at Snapchat, would you be comfortable handling overall project manager responsibilities for new software development?