Zynga·Software Engineer

Zynga Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Jul 2012 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got an initial email from a recruiter, and the early part was pretty light—she asked about my current work and had me rate my expertise across programming languages.

Then I connected with an interviewer using a remote coding setup.

He asked me to analyze an algorithm first, and I worked through that while explaining my reasoning. Halfway through, his internet connection dropped, and he switched gears quickly. He then asked me to write a function for finding a value in a binary tree and requested complexity details like the big-O expected behavior. I wrote something for finding a value from the root, and when I discussed complexity I could tell he was satisfied with the answer.

The whole phone-screen-to-coding flow was average in difficulty, and I didn’t

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