Zillow Software Engineer interview experience

Once I finished that, I went through a larger set of team interviews with several different lenses: a system design exercise using a whiteboard format for a property search experience that also needed to fit into Zillow’s broader ecosystem, a refactoring round where I had to clean up a production codebase with messy code, a behavioral interview handled in a STAR style, and then a final greenfield coding round that was similar in spirit to the earlier screening.

Across these steps, it felt difficult mostly because each round shifted the goalposts. I wasn’t just implementing algorithms—I had