Zapier·Software Engineer

Zapier Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Jun 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an online form where I answered questions designed to jump-start the interview process, and it actually took me a couple of hours to write thoughtful answers.

After about a week, I got an email saying the hiring team was impressed. Then I was scheduled for a 30-minute “fit” interview over Zoom, with an HR recruiter who wasn’t technical and had only been at the company for a couple of months.

During the call, she explained some basics about the position and the team, and then the questions came through in a list format that felt like it was prepared by someone else. What threw me off was that she asked questions based on assumptions about my background, and at one point it became clear that they hadn’t even looked at my resume—at least not in any

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