Zscaler·Software Engineer

Zscaler Software Engineer interview experience

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Austin, TXPosted Jan 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I found the recruiter through repeated emails, and once we connected, a manager walked me through what the role would involve.

The manager seemed genuinely nice and technically inclined, and he said the follow-on interview would be two hours with a system design problem—something like designing WhatsApp. That system design slot didn’t end up happening, because one of the final interviewers dropped at the last moment.

The remaining interviews felt a bit improvised. The interviewers were passing the mic between each other and didn’t seem fully prepared. Some questions also felt a little odd, which made the overall arc less coherent than what I’d been told at the beginning.

I still moved through the process, but I

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