Zillow Software Engineer interview experience

The first round was an hour with a senior software engineer, and it was basically two LeetCode-style medium problems. The second round was the same exact structure—again two medium LeetCode questions in an hour—but with a different software engineer.

I appreciated that it stayed consistent, since I knew what I was walking into each time. It also felt like the main expectation was how I approached and worked through the problems rather than anything overly elaborate outside of coding. I didn’t end up getting an offer, but overall it felt straightforward and contained to just those two coding