Zipline·Software Engineer

Zipline Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Apr 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got pulled into the process through LinkedIn, then did a short recruiter call followed by a brief discussion with the hiring manager focused on my past experience.

Next came a take-home assignment where I used either Rust or C++20, and I finished it a bit over two hours. The way it felt was that they cared more about whether the solution worked than polish like code quality or tests.

After that, I had a roughly hour-long conversation with an engineer on the automation team where we went through my solution and my design considerations, and they asked good follow-up questions. Then I entered a larger panel interview: two system design interviews, a behavioral “outdoor walk” style conversation, and an interview that felt very specific to bus and sensor

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