Did one phone screen and then came onsite for an interview. I was excited about seeing the office environment and culture. However, when I got there, I was taken to an office specifically only for interviews. How is someone supposed to make an informed decision about working for a company when they can't even see the office?
Most of my interviewers were fine, but one was just flat out rude and disrespectful. He came in 15 minutes late, (didn't apologize, introduce himself, or tell me about his background), took my resume and just started listing off questions for me to answer. He even asked me if I would be willing to accept immediately after getting an offer! He was yawning, checking his watch, and didn't try to get to know me at all during my interview. He was very arrogant and made negative comments about my current company. To say he gave me a bad taste for Snapchat as a company is an understatement.
My recruiter said she would get back to me by a certain day, and 2 days later still hadn't. At this point, I definitely had no intentions of accepting if I was extended an offer, but I still wanted to know what the final answer was, and to get some feedback. After she finally called me to tell me they would not be extending an offer, she said they have a policy against sharing feedback. She stayed on the phone with me for about 1 minute.
To make matters worse, I found out later that a different interviewer than the one mentioned above told one of my coworkers at my current company that I had interviewed at Snap Inc. Pretty sure that's illegal and against the ethics of recruiting. I did not want anyone at my current company to know I was interviewing, yet Snap took that choice away from me and went behind my back to tell my coworker not only that I interviewed there, but DIDN'T get the job! Unbelievable.
I would say my entire experience interviewing at Snap was a waste of time, and I recommend that team reviews their recruiting methods. An aggressive, rude, and non-transparent team will never be able to get the top talent in the industry, especially being in SoCal, when all the other top tech companies are in NorCal. This was truly a reminder of how to be a good, ethical recruiter, unlike some of the ones I encountered at Snap. For a tech company that's so up and coming, it is disappointing to see how unprofessional their methods are.