The Zappos Family Software Engineer interview experience

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San Francisco, CAPosted May 2011 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an initial recruiter/HR touchpoint, I had a sequence that felt unusually values-driven.

First came a phone conversation with the hiring manager that was fairly standard—mostly to gauge my interest in the role and hear what I planned to do. Then the process shifted into something much more behavioral and intense: a HR round designed to see whether I matched the company’s core values. The questions were framed like they were simple, but I felt like the interviewer was listening for the structure of my stories and whether I could tie my answers back to specific values without rambling.

What surprised me was how technical it became after that. I had a technical phone screen, and

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