Zendesk Software Engineer interview experience

The last parts were more hands-on—first a low-level design plus coding round where I built a tiny client application that consumed a given API, and then a separate coding interview where scheduling got tight.

For me, the process ended up feeling unusually abrupt. I had a week of waiting after the hiring manager step, then I was scheduled for back-to-back coding and system design interviews. Just a few hours before those interviews, I got a call that they’d stopped hiring and cancelled everything. There was no real attempt to salvage the schedule, and I didn’t get any meaningful follow-up,