Zscaler·Software Engineer

Zscaler Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The scheduling started well, but the process turned frustrating after that.

The interview was well managed by recruiters at first, yet the hiring team repeatedly rescheduled the call because they were busy, and I kept having to adjust. Eventually, I went through three technical rounds and then a final hiring manager round.

After the final conversation, I was rejected with the reason that I wasn’t aligned with what they were looking for. What bothered me was that it felt like they had plenty of chances to reject me earlier; instead, they let me go through the motions and gave a lot of hope before the end.

In the end, I didn’t get an offer, and the biggest takeaway

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