Zillow Software Engineer interview experience

At the beginning of the technical session I talked through my past experience, and then I was handed a set of on-the-spot technical questions. A lot of the focus landed on niche, low-level front-end behavior—specifically obscure cascading inheritance rules in CSS—so it wasn’t the kind of coding screen where you can simply fall back on general patterns.

The format was still interactive: it wasn’t purely a live coding exercise. I answered questions directly and tried to stay organized in my explanations. Overall, it felt difficult because I had to be accurate about details that weren’t exactly