Zeta Software Engineer interview experience

I was told the interviewer would give me two leetcode-style questions to solve, and I had to share my screen while writing the code. The session wasn’t just about reaching an answer; there was an expectation that I’d actually demonstrate execution and reasoning.

After I wrote the code, I had to dry run it and make sure it handled edge cases correctly. The overall rhythm felt like constant checking, where even after writing, I still needed to prove the logic held up under tricky inputs. It was difficult because the structure left little room to “hand-wave” any uncertainty, but that also made