Reddit's engineering interviews have a reputation for being thorough without being adversarial. The typical loop for software engineers runs 4-5 rounds: a recruiter screen, a technical phone screen (usually 45-60 min of coding), and then an onsite or virtual onsite with a mix of systems design, coding, and behavioral rounds. For non-engineering roles (product, marketing, ads, policy), expect a case or take-home component plus several cross-functional stakeholder interviews.
A few things stand out about Reddit specifically. The behavioral portion carries real weight. Reddit cares a lot about how you think about community, scale, and safety tradeoffs, so "tell me about a time you had to balance competing stakeholder needs" is not a throwaway question here. For eng roles, systems design at Reddit often involves thinking about read-heavy, high-fan-out architectures (think vote counts, feeds, notifications at scale). On the coding side, it's standard LeetCode-medium territory but they tend to prefer clean, readable code over clever hacks.
Timelines have been reported at 2-4 weeks from first screen to offer, though that can stretch in slower hiring cycles. Headcount fluctuated in 2023-2024 after the IPO, so checking recency on any data point here matters.
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(Posted by Primly Team. We compile this from public reports, community submissions, and candidate interviews. Not affiliated with Reddit.)