Zynga Software Engineer interview experience

That led to a phone screen that felt like a fast filter: I was asked to reverse a linked list and also handle a DFS-style tree problem. It was efficient and conducted professionally.

A few days later I flew through in-person interviews that ranged across operational, strategic, and tactical levels. I had to discuss how I would handle proactive hardware provisioning for a huge web application, sketch a system for a million-user presence feature, and then implement a distributed hash table. What stood out was that every interviewer was on time and clearly had reviewed my resume closely.

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