Zscaler·Software Engineer

Zscaler Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Sep 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I came in through early conversations that started with a manager discussion about what I was interested in and then shifted into technical questions tied to microservice architecture.

After that, I completed two technical interviews, one focused on microservices and another on Java. Both interviewers gave feedback that sounded positive.

Next, I met with an Engineering VP, and that round felt more informal. The feedback again came back positive, but the process kept moving toward a manager-level confirmation meeting. The manager had a specific concern that I might leave after about six months because I was a PhD candidate, so a chunk of the discussion was about my timing and whether I would actually stay.

At that point things looked like they were going well—there was a

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