Zalando Software Engineer interview experience

I went through initial discussions that led into an engineering manager conversation, and then I reached the final block of interviews where I had system design, coding, and general technical questions.

The interviews themselves were decent, and I even felt successful in most of the phases, but an offer never came through. By the time I was finishing up, the company had apparently stopped hiring and was doing layoffs, so it felt less like my performance was the only deciding factor. The end-to-end timeline stretched far enough that it became hard to stay confident, and I wasn’t getting