Zscaler·Software Engineer

Zscaler Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter touchpoint, I ended up with a pretty focused first technical round that started out with networking questions and then shifted into coding.

I had two coding problems, and after that I was handed a system design prompt with an open-ended problem statement. That last part was the hardest for me to wrap my head around, especially because the interviewer didn’t really feel encouraging or helpful as I was trying to structure my approach.

The coding portion felt manageable compared to the system design, and my overall confidence dropped once I got deeper into that open-ended scenario. I left the round feeling like I struggled more than I expected, mainly due to how the system design conversation played out, and that ended up defining

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