I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Zillow (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2013
Interview
Got in touch with Zillow through a local recruiting company. I answered 2 pre-screen coding problems. Convert a string to a number, and implement 3-ary tree insert/delete operations.
They got back to me a few days after that was submitted. A phone interview was scheduled.
The guy doing the phone interview sounded very disinterested from the start of the conversation. I lost my interest almost immediately. He was unfriendly, and almost seemed like he did not want to participate in the call.
He also asked a lot of school-like questions. Theoretical questions about performance between different algorithms, between different languages, performance differences between a C++ app vs. a Java app. Some of the questions were good, but he focused too much on things that a software developer really doesn't face too often.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
During the phone interview, they asked me to write code to find the first unique character in a string.
Proceso de MESES de coordinacion donde te cancelan las entrevistas apenas instantes antes. Personalmente, entre a una de ellas y la reclutadora insistio en que el entrevistador habia entrado "y yo no", cuando si habia entrado. Completamente una falta de respeto. Su proceso de coordinacion y reforzamiento para que los entrevistadores no esten haciendo tanto rescheduling es PESIMO.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design interview: Diseniar un sistema de telemetria para tractores
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Zillow (Ciudad de México) in Mar 2026
Interview
Son 6 pasos:
El del recruiter
El screen > live coding de un problema regular de producción no es tipo leetcode
Una vez completados vienen estos son 4 que son con el equipo con el que se llena la vacante:
- System Design : white board de un buscador de propiedades que además debe relacionarse con el ecosistema de la empresa.
- refactor: live coding de un problema de producción con código feo que hay que acomodar, es mucho lo que se puede corregir y no da tiempo de todo.
- engineer: esta es behavioral y se trata de responder en formato star
- greenfield : es igual que la de screening pero ahora con alguien del equipo
Zillow response
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Thank you for outlining your experience with our interview process. We recognize that a multi-step process can feel intensive, and your perspective helps us better understand how it’s experienced end to end. We’re continuously working to make our interviews more thoughtful and well-paced, and insights like yours play an important role in that.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Zillow (Ciudad de México)
Interview
Son 6 entrevistas que van desde juntas con los reclutadores, que son las primeras dos, otras 3 son de tecnología, tanto ejercicios en un lenguaje x, de diseño de sistemas. algo mas sobre como trabajas, y otra prueba técnica de otro lenguaje y. Digo lo de x y y porque puede ser variado dependiendo del puesto.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
En diseño de sistemas como diseñaria yo un sistema para correo electronico, y en las otras dos fueron mas tipo completa esta funcionalidad y asi.
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