Zulily Software Engineer interview experience (2014)

Zulily Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Seattle, WAPosted Sep 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter conversation where I talked through my background and what I’d built, and I ended up going straight into the interview loop rather than doing an extra, more technical info session with leadership.

The first step was a phone screen with the usual questions plus a shared coding segment. It didn’t feel especially hard, and we also had a real discussion about operational details like the on-call process and what changes had been made.

About a week later I was invited onsite for multiple in-house interviews. The format was a sequence of technical discussions and problem-solving focused on areas like SQL, Java, algorithms/design, and general full-stack concepts. I was prepared to go deep given the amount of web development I’d done, and I expected my experience with languages and tooling to

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Zulily Software Engineer interview experience

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