Zillow·Backend Engineer

Zillow Backend Engineer interview experience

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Ciudad de MexicoPosted Jun 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process started with a recruiter reaching out via LinkedIn, followed by a profile-style conversation and then technical coding screens.

After the first technical round, there was a wait of a couple of weeks before I got to the next one, which kept the momentum slow.

In the coding round two, I worked through another session where the focus was still on solving the problem effectively within the allotted time. After that, the process shifted into legacy code maintenance—questions and discussion centered on working with existing systems—and then I did a behavioral interview with a manager. The final stage was systems design, which capped the sequence.

What made it feel moderately difficult for me was the variety: I had to move

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