Zipline·Software Engineer

Zipline Software Engineer interview experience

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

My process started with a recruiter call that felt upbeat and enthusiastic, and they set the tone that they had a tightly run schedule.

About a week later I had a video conversation with the hiring manager, where we dug deep into my resume and then moved into behavioral questions that were honestly more probing than I expected.

The middle of the loop was the take-home assignment. I had to develop code for something that felt like a real application rather than a toy problem, and there was a real time crunch if I tried to follow their guideline of two hours. I still had indefinite prep time, though, and that contrast forced me to think in terms of multiple strategies instead of treating it like a single sprint. After that,

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