Zulily·Software Engineer

Zulily Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Feb 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first recruiter call set things up, and then the process moved into an engineering-focused phone interview with a shared editor coding question.

The coding itself wasn’t impossibly hard, but writing it cleanly with recursion was tougher than I expected. I got onsite scheduled soon after.

On the onsite, it was a long day across five rounds total, including a lunch that was more casual than technical. The interviewers were generally respectful, but the pressure came from volume. Some questions were behavioral and experience-related, and others were technical with a mix of coding and design. I didn’t gel with every interviewer, which made the day feel inconsistent rather than uniformly fair.

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