ZZalando·Software Engineer

Zalando Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

BerlinPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call, I ended up doing Codility first and it felt very formal—my score came back as perfect.

The HR call was fairly short, and then I had a hiring manager discussion that wrapped up early even though the slot was longer. The manager was genuinely kind and took time to answer what I asked, which made the whole process feel less cold.

Next came three interviews on the core engineering side. I had a coding round that ended up being fairly easy Java; I had mentioned I hadn’t used Java in a while, but it was still straightforward enough to move through. Then I did a general technical conversation where the hiring manager and another engineering manager went through my background and more

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