ZZalando·Software Engineer

Zalando Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

BerlinPosted May 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the recruiter call, I was pulled into a live coding challenge that wasn’t purely algorithmic.

Instead, it centered on practical problem-solving, but the interaction felt oddly uncollaborative. Rather than clearly setting expectations, the interviewer pushed me to improve the entire codebase, including parts I hadn’t authored.

A big part of the work involved immutability, which ended up being time-consuming, and updating the relevant test cases to match the changes would have taken additional time too. The lack of flexibility and unclear communication left me feeling like I might be going down the wrong path, and I kept getting the sense that if it took too long, we should move

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