The Zappos Family Software Engineer interview experience

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Las Vegas, NVPosted Feb 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I applied online, I got an assessment the next day.

The test ran for about four hours and included multiple coding problems—medium overall, though one problem was noticeably tougher than the others. I also didn’t get the chance to coast; I had to stay focused the whole time to see it through.

Once the assessment ended, the process moved into a short virtual interview. It was brief—around fifteen minutes—and skewed behavioral, with a few technical elements mixed in depending on the questions they pulled. The timing felt compressed, so I had to keep my answers clear and grounded rather than rambling.

This journey ended without an offer, but it

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