Zynga·Software Engineer

Zynga Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Positive

Seattle, WAPosted Mar 2012 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview flow started with a prelim screening and then moved into an onsite with four to five one-hour interviews.

The problems were very practical: I wrote a hashtable implementation on the board, and then I solved distributed-systems-style questions.

Some of the systems prompts were about things like a bank of web servers, multi-tier caching, and connection fan-in—so it wasn’t just algorithms for loops. It felt like they wanted evidence that I understood how systems and networks behave under load and coordination.

The experience was average in difficulty and ended without an offer. What stayed with me was the balance between coding and systems thinking, and how that made the interviews feel more

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