Zynga·Software Engineer

Zynga Software Engineer interview experience

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MediumUnited StatesPosted May 2013 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first major step was a phone screen that focused on background, and then it moved quickly into a practical coding task.

I had to work through a prompt that was very specific to reasoning about time—calculating the angle between the minute and hour hands on a clock after hearing the setup.

Soon after, I went into a longer fly-out style interview day. The phone portion before the trip emphasized CS fundamentals rather than writing code, and it also included a brain teaser plus behavioral questions. Once I was on-site, the interviews felt much more rigorous: a mix of programming problems, at least one design or architecture-style discussion, a round centered on explaining CS concepts, and additional behavioral

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