I applied online. I interviewed at Zendesk (Melbourne) in Apr 2022
Interview
1. Screening call with a recruiter
2. An interview with a hiring manager, took an hour (this is where I stopped)
3. Coding interview (1 hour)
4. System Design Interview (1 hour)
A week after the interview with hiring manger, I got a call to let me know they're happy to move forward with the interview process and I got schedule confirmed for both the coding and system design interviews back to back.
Then just 3 hours before interviews on the day, they called me and said they'd had stopped hiring that position and cancelled my interviews. Period. No apologies or whatsoever.
Unsurprisingly, that position was posted again a few days later.
I guess they should have talked straight to my face if I was unfit and that they made a mistake to schedule me for those interviews and I would feel better.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interview with hiring manager is straightforward when they asked about common things like past challenging projects, opinion about team culture, etc.
1st round HR round then a screen round with Engineering manager, and then a live coding test with 2 engineers.
I got rejected after the coding test so don't know the process beyond it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic react query about build process and optimizations
I applied online. I interviewed at Zendesk (Singapore) in Sep 2025
Interview
There were 5 rounds
- Screening round with HR
- Manager round
- Technical Coding round
- System design round
- Product manager
The turnaround time was quick. The entire interview process took around 2 weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General cultural fit questions during manager interview round
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Zendesk (Melbourne) in Sep 2025
Interview
The first round is a behavioral interview with the manager.
The second round is a system design interview with the technical lead.
The third round is a coding interview with a staff engineer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Behavioral interview: Common behavioral questions.
2. System design: Design Jira.
3. Coding: Implementation of several React components.