I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Zoom Communications (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2021
Interview
I started my interview process with an initial call with the recruiter. My recruiter's name was Christy. Christy made my interview experience very smooth and I enjoyed working with her from start to finish of this process. After the initial phone call, I was setup with a technical phone screen which consisted of three parts: java algorithm /data structure question, sql questions, and some general java questions.
After this step, I was scheduled for a one hour onsite interview with a couple of members from the team. The questions in this interview pretty much covered general java questions, sql questions, and resume questions.
I got my offer after a week. During this whole process, I worked with Christy who was in constant communication with me and made sure that I was ready for the interviews. She made sure I was successful in the interviews and was very personable. Unfortunately, I had to decline the offer because I had another offer where I had a personal connection with the manager.
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I interviewed at Zoom Communications (San Jose, CA)
Interview
Recruiter call for screening for college grad role. and then was originally scheduled for 2 different rounds but end up having only one round with 2 interviewers together. First half of the round regarding basic project related questions and git commands for tricky situations
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time when you had to work through disagreements?
Nice interview process with many interesting stages. Included testing of language skills as this was a support role across geographies.
Went through to the final round only to be told that the position was no longer being hired for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Background in telco development, understanding of stuff like SIP.
I applied online. I interviewed at Zoom Communications (San Jose, CA) in Nov 2025
Interview
Had an online assessment on CodeSignal with an option to take the test unproctored (?). Did they expect me to use AI or didnt? It wasnt clear but I did not use AI knowing that despite it being unproctored, they still track every key stroke. Extremely lengthy questions. What used to be easy in the previous years (questions 1,2 ) and medium (question 3,4) are all now medium to hard. Not sure if codesignal adjusted their difficulty or Zoom did. Some of them expect highly optimized solutions even - constantly running into TLE. The questions themselves were lengthy - each 20-30 lines with nuances all over - so you can quickly even skim thru the question. I had a terrible 75 minutes with my confidence completely assaulted. I didnt even bother to find solutions to these problems after the test (which I normally do when I fail a technical interview) because I felt their expectations from the candidate are sky high just because software engineers are now suddenly dispensable commodity like high quality toilet paper.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA?Algorithms? I wouldn't know because I don't have the reading speed of a robot.