Zynga·Software Engineer

Zynga Software Engineer interview experience

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San Francisco, CAPosted Sep 2013 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a fairly classic progression: first an on-campus interview, then more rounds that led to an on-site day in San Francisco.

The initial on-campus step included a coding question and questions about my projects. After that, I had a phone interview where the scheduling was oddly shaky—it took several reschedules before it finally happened, and when it did, it combined another coding question on a shared editor with basic resume-style HR questions.

The on-site was the real workload: four interviews that included multiple technical conversations, plus HR and management-style interaction. Across those technical rounds, I was asked about core topics like data structures, linked lists, and hash tables, along with

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