Zapier·Software Engineer

Zapier Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop began with a recruiter outreach followed by a job-fit conversation with a manager.

The manager interview was easygoing and I liked that it felt like a real discussion rather than a checklist. Next came a 2.5-hour take-home assignment, which looked straightforward on paper as a full-stack project, with limited languages to Python and JavaScript.

Setup and execution ended up being more time-consuming than I expected, but I was still okay with that until the next stage. I went into a skills test interview where two engineers reviewed my assignment with me. What surprised me was how loosely connected that live interview felt to the take-home itself—it turned into a broader set

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