I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Zalando in Nov 2021
Interview
I got an interview through the referral 1-an interview with an Engineer manager the goal of the interview was to get an idea of what kind of engineer I am. 2-Recruiter calls about salary expectation 3-Coding interview(a programming test that i should solve it in an hour) 4-System Design(It was about best practices and architecture design) the process took a long time and finally, they didn't give me a result after that I investigated the result, but I was rejected because, in the coding interview, the interviewer felt I'm depending on an idea for coding. In the coding interview, I solved the problem and passed the tests.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1-Dead lock(first interview) 2-Showing best practices in a coding example(last interview) 3-Definition of a senior person(last interview) 4-Difference between functional programming and OOP
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Zalando in Feb 2022
Interview
Interview has 6 steps : 1. Hiring Manager (Behavioural Interview)2. Codility test (3 questions. 1 is easy and 2 are medium)3. Software design (Simple android task. Design login screen along with rest api design)4. HR interview (Some behavioural questions)5. Technical Android interview (very easy questions - Activity , fragment lifecycle, how View Model works, What is thread safe?, Why to use DI?)6. Live Coding (2 Easy questions e.g. Balanced brackets using stack.)
Interview experience was really good. All interviewers are so helpful. They really wanted you to succeed.
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I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin) in Mar 2019
Interview
On one of the Android meetups I got an information that Zalando is going to hire 10 Android devs at onse, so I thought it could be my chance. I applied online. Week later they sent me link to calendar to schedule HR screening. Next possible date was 3 weeks later. So, just to speak with HR you need to wait 4 weeks. I don't think such a huge company as Zalando can't find 30 minutes of any available recruiters sooner than in 1 month.
But, anyway. I know, that it's a Germany, you must wait in Germany. But it should be something worth waiting for. But, not. I am spending my time, preparing to call just to know that they have some technical issues. I proposed to make a phone call. No, she said "tomorrow". And disappeared for next 1,5 weeks.
Next time I got a letter from them I said I call off my application, because I already had 2 job offers.
