Zynga Software Engineer interview experience

Each interviewer put me in a whiteboard setting where I had to work through a coding problem or a systems-design problem. One interviewer asked me about the time complexity of search algorithms—specifically the expected behavior for something like searching. Another asked me to design a REST API.

What made it feel intense was the technical level and the fact that there wasn’t much downtime between different kinds of tasks. By the time I was done, it was clear they were looking for strong systems-level thinking, not just “write code and move on.” I didn’t get an offer, and the process left me