Zalando Software Engineer interview experience

In my case, I didn’t even have a proper HR call, and I jumped into a behavioral-plus-tech interview that lasted about an hour. The questions were clearly geared toward standard explanations—why I wanted the role and why I was changing jobs—and I had to rely on having prepared answers.

Even when I asked about why I’d chosen their team, the team itself wasn’t introduced clearly by either side, which made the whole interaction feel messy and disconnected. Eventually the process just fizzled out—no meaningful feedback arrived, and it felt like the company disappeared.

Another part of what stuck