I applied online. I interviewed at Zalando in Oct 2020
Interview
I applied online and they send me an online assessment test and I solved 100/100.
Next there was two more interview sessions:
First interview session: 3 hours interview:
1. There was 1-1 with Senior Engineer, he asked me about the assessment that I did and then switched to some questions related to javascript and also ask me to solve some questions that are rated to javascript Promise.
2. 1-1 with Engineering Manager and this interview was to presentation about Zalando and over all the team I am applying and a lot of behavioral questions.
Second interview sessions was 4 hour long and 4 interview with 5-10 min break:
1. System Design interview and I felt like interviewer was bit not confident and also not engaged on process. Other than that he was super nice and guiding sometimes what I need to do.
2.Checking the general domain knowledge about Javascript and Web. There was a lot of questions. Interviewer was incredibly nice and giving minimal help to me get right answer. Later asked how do I feel about this interview ....
3. Interview with HR and he also ask some behavioral questions and my motivation to apply Zalando.
4.Last interview was also about the assignment that I did and I felt like he was not confident. But general process was good. and at the end he asked simple question LeetCode easy level.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
OA:
React question and NodeJS/
Online Onsite:
1. Design product review system.
2. Study Javascript and Web domain general knowledge.
3. Behavioral questions.
4. Similar to flatten list.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin) in Oct 2021
Interview
It is little long process but have faith it is very smooth. There are multiple round of interviews and I was aware of what gonna happen in the interview. Overall my experience is awesome with HR and Team member and other interviewers.
Summarising Steps Below:
1. Codality challenge related to Node and React
2. Recruiter connect 30 (general QA , Getting to know you and share more details about the roles and responsibilities)
Next step 4 interview that happened back to back in the same day.
1. Live Coding( Problem Solving , Pair Programming)
Leetcode medium level question
2. General Tech( Mostly related to core JS concept, Browser, Http, Cache etc)
3. System Design ( You need to design the system flow , mostly for an e commerce problem
4. Hiring Manager Interview( Behaviour, Its About you, Your personality , some questions about managing team and how one can be a great team player.
Each of the step is depend on previous step.
Have patients and believe in yourself, Right thing will come at the right time.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin) in May 2021
Interview
There is a codility challenge with 3 exercises. After that there is an initial screeining by one of the software engineers with technical questions and a coding challenge. If you pass that you get invited to 5 interviews in a row (5h) with a systems design, general tech, coding, cultural fit and engineering manager interviews. After that you get your decision which in my case took over 2 months, really unprofessional
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Is the typing system of typescript structural or nominal and why?
Difference between an arrow function and a normal function?
How can we keep a state between different REST Api calls?
