Zillow Senior Software Development Engineer interview questions

Do not go interview at Zillow!! they treat their candidates horribly. See below: Process started with a phone interview. The interview was challenging but not too much. I was told that I did very well on it and was brought for a full onsite. The onsite consisted of 4 - one hour long technical interviews, 1 lunch, 1 manager interview and a last session with the recruiter. All together over 6 hours. During the interviews, I felt that I was doing well, and for the most part received positive signals from the interviewers. That is besides one interviewer with whom I had a communication gap and I could not understand what he wanted. I got a call several days later with a rejection. I was very surprised and asked the recruiter to get back to me with feedback. The recruiter promised to call, but never did. Only after I reached out to him again he sent me a templated answer in an email that their policy was not to share feedback. I learnt later through an indirect (but reliable) source that there was only one interviewer who gave me negative feedback and due to this I was rejected. 1. A company that rejects someone based on 1 interview after keeping him onsite for six straight hours is not a company that values candidates. 2. To make things worse, the fact that the recruiter ignored me, and later did not even try to give me some sort of feedback for me to improve on just shows the general attitude of Zillow towards candidates. 3. I will never return to Zillow again, and I suggest to anyone who values their own time, not to bother with them. I'm a senior engineer and I've interviewed in many companies. Even at those that I did not succeed, I felt that those companies valued my time. Zillow does not. They waste your entire day and then reject you based on a single fault while not even providing any reasons for it. A company that treats its candidates this way, will eventually treat its employees the same. From my perspective, I'm very happy that I did not end up there.

I applied online and within a few days received an email from their recruiter to setup an initial screen. We setup a call for the next day. The interview felt more like a casual conversation than an interview. During the call she let me know the next steps would be to complete a coding exercise. She sent me the exercise within minutes of our call ending. The exercise was fairly easy, I finished it that day and emailed the details back that evening. Unfortunately the original position I applied for went away. The recruiter called me to let me know, but also said here was a similar position about to be posted with a different team, and she promised she would walk my resume down to the hiring manager herself when the job posts. In my opinion, this goes above and beyond. Most other recruiters would have sent an email saying sorry, the position is gone. Better luck next time. But not her. I got an email a week or so later saying the hiring manager for the new position wanted to move forward to the next step. I didn't even have to do another coding exercise! I had a 30 minute tech interview with the hiring manager. The call went well and he told me that the recruiter would be in contact to setup the next steps. About a week or so later, I went in for the in-person interview. It was roughly 4 hours with 4 different people, 1 hour each. Even though it was more technical, it still felt just like having a conversation. A lot of back and forth, just bouncing ideas of each other. Two days after the in-person interview, I got a call from the recruiter with an offer, which I happily accepted! The interview/recruiting process with Zillow has been by far the best experience I've ever had. They have a great recruiting team!