Zynga Software Engineer interview experience

The screening was pretty straightforward: basic questions and light programming concepts like whether I was familiar with vectors and what I thought were the most important ideas in programming.

After that, things slowed down. I didn’t hear back right away, and by the time I followed up weeks later, HR seemed to move the process along as if it had stalled. That momentum turned into three phone technical interviews scheduled for the next week. The technical questions leaned toward PHP and MySQL, plus some multi-threaded programming concepts. Even though it was technical, the interviewers were