Zscaler·Software Engineer

Zscaler Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted May 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview kicked off with an HR call, then quickly moved into a technical session with a staff engineer.

The scheduled technical portion was supposed to be about 45 minutes covering coding and technical discussion, but the interviewer spent most of the time talking in a way that felt like he had locked onto specific networking terminology instead of my actual experience. He even seemed unsure what role I was being interviewed for, bouncing between angles like development vs QA, and kept correcting me until he was getting the exact wording he wanted. It made it hard to focus on understanding and problem-solving rather than vocabulary.

After that long technical back-and-forth, he finally gave me

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