Zulily Software Engineer interview experience

The onsite was a marathon: five back-to-back interviews without much breathing room. Three rounds were coding, and the problems felt like medium LeetCode-style tasks. There was also a behavioral round where they asked questions about how I work and what kind of situations I’ve handled before, and the last part was system design.

Overall the difficulty felt average, but the pacing made it mentally heavy. The format was consistent and structured—alternating between coding and non-coding discussion—so I could tell what they were evaluating at each step. Interviews were largely straightforward,