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Zilliz interview questions
based on 4 ratings - Updated Oct 23, 2025
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Recruiter
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Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Zilliz as 50% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.25 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Sales and Software Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Technical Recruiter and Software Engineer roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Zilliz takes an average of 14 days when considering 4 user submitted interviews across all job titles. To compare, the average duration of hiring at similar companies like BlackRock, Inc. is 14 days, Fabricated Software, Inc. is 2 days, and Apple Inc. is 21 days. Candidates applying for Software Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 14 days), whereas Software Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 14 days).
Was very straight forward with a normal 3 round process. I did not feel like I was asked any unexpected questions and I enjoyed my conversation with everyone I met.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about my history in sales and what brought me here.
leetcode questions and self introduction and then go through the resume to see whether you fit or not. The process involves 2 rounds and coding online. After that you will get an offer email if you pass.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Zilliz in Dec 2023
Interview
Pro
Interviewers are friendly and helpful.
Con
- recruiter rescheduled interview twice to get a time where their CEO is in office, on the day of interview, I was told CEO is not in office at the end of the interview.
- coding round tools is a codepad with ads popping up intermittently, not professional.
- manager round is really weird, it was supposed to be a project deep dive but a lot questions were thrown at me about the old system as in “why don’t your company do it this way and that’s Zilliz has been doing“, and after 30 min spent on this I mentioned we haven’t touched my project yet while iterating on this old system, afterwards questions about metrics, scale impact were asked, without understanding of the project and without details in diving in the project.
- previous review mentioned they use interview to get information/best practices without intention if hiring, and the two rounds have given me this feeling, recommend to be cautious.