ZZalando·Software Engineer

Zalando Software Engineer interview experience

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Santo DomingoPosted Jun 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an HR intro call that lasted under an hour, then about a week later I went into a live technical interview that was a full hour of coding.

After that came a general tech interview that felt more behavioral than purely technical, also an hour. The final step was system design, another hour, and that one was the toughest part for me.

The whole process stretched to about four weeks, with one interview each week, and the final answer came roughly a week after the last round. I remember feeling like the first coding round was straightforward compared to what system design demanded of me, and by the time I reached that stage I was already mentally tired. Overall it was structured and paced, and the waiting didn’t feel chaotic—just

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