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Updated May 25, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer at Zynga
Posted May 21, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2012 (took a day)
never expected hr will ask such questions:
1. why do you want to join Zynga?
2. what is the largest project have you done?
3. how to optimize your code?
4. how to add a new feature in Cityville?
5. what is the difference between Java & c++?
6. if given you a large code, how do you figure out what it is used for?
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The interview consisted of a Background Check.
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Data Analyst at Zynga
Posted May 25, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2012 (took a day)
Phone interview and 5 1:1 on site interview with analytics team. Tons of SQL questions (asked by everyone) and graph/chart/number questions. If you are not good at SQL, do not apply for this job because it will only waste your time. Zynga is a very data driven company, and from what I have learned, working hours should be long. Also, it seems data analyst will spend lots of time working independently.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Analyst at Zynga
Posted May 18, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)
1st round was a test - the questions related to logical reasoning types, suggestions for improvement in zynga games etc
Interview-was kind of analytical reasoning, scenario was given and was asked to develop a game based on that, and then different scenarios were explained and tested whether proper reason can be arrived at why something is observed.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer New Grad at Zynga
Posted May 7, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 1+ week)
The first interview was a simple phone interview with basic HR questions on interests and past projects. The on-site interview consisted on 3 interviews: 2 technical and 1 behavioural. The people were very nice and friendly.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Product Manager at Zynga
Posted May 1, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 3 weeks)
Lots of questions about metrics for both mobile and PC games. They wanted to know that I was really into gaming, and I was asked about what features I would add, how to increase engagement, possible reasons for lower than anticipated engagement, etc. First round interview was a phone interview with a recruiter that was mostly fit (why Zynga, why this role, why tech, etc) as well as some gaming specific questions (if you were to propose a new game what would it be? What metrics do we use? Etc). Second round interview was three rounds with three current managers.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Zynga
Posted Mar 27, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took a day)
4 Seperate Interviews, two engineers and two HR reps. I also had a lunch interview that was a bit of a snafoo, I wasn't supposed to be asked coding questions over lunch but was.
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The interview consisted of a Skills Test.
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Public Relations at Zynga
Posted Mar 19, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 4 weeks)
The recruiter reached out and before she was willing to set up an in-person interview she requested three writing samples About a week later the recruiter sent me a list of four people with whom I would meet with during an in-person interview two weeks later. Of the four people I was interviewing with, the hiring manager was a phone interview from the East Coast (no biggie), and one person did not make it. The two people I met with in person were very nice and confirmed that Zynga demands much of your time. One interviewer said that they worked "'news cycle' hours, and we all know that the news never sleeps." After my interview, they gave me a writing test over email to complete 'at my convenience.'
My advice for others is to go early. I've never seen such a line up to 'sign-in' at a front desk and the receptionist was more interested in her text messages than she was in signing people in. Also, the front door is kind of difficult to find - there's no signage - but it's one of the doors to the right hand side of the planter on 8th. Look for people coming out.
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Software Engineer New Grad at Zynga
Posted Mar 20, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 (took 2+ weeks)
Sent my CV online through the company webpage.
Got contacted a week or so later with request to schedule a short HR phone screen.
After that I was invited for onsite interviews. 3 technical interviews and 2 HR interviews.
Everything went smoothly and the process was very well arranged by Zynga University Relations personal.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Principal Software Engineer at Zynga
Posted Mar 16, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
Standard stuff. prelim screening, then on-site - 4-5 1hr interviews.
You gotta be good at interviews. Wrote a hashtable implementation on the board (can you code).
Solved a few distributed systems problems - bank of webservers, tiers of caching, dealing with connection fan-in, etc (do you understand systems and networks, not just FOR loops).
Few other questions - interviewers were pretty good at it. I learned a few things to use in my own interviews.
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Negotiation Details
I didn't need to negotiate. They hooked me up - serious efforts were taken to double my stock grant when I didn't even know what was on the line. Negotiate with what? No one else would pay me that much.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at Zynga
Posted Mar 11, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
As the interviewer told me, the first interview at Zynga is often non-technical. It was mostly about my background and related experience. But yeah, as other posts said, he didn't even know what school I come from, so I'm not sure he had viewed my resume.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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