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      Senior Backend Engineer Interview

      27 Jul 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Zalando in Jun 2024

      Interview

      I was contacted by a recruiter via linkedin. Had one round with a hiring manager who arrived on a call 10 minutes late without giving any notice and didn't even apologise for being late. No feedback, ghosted. Quite a dull experience. I'd say it was the last time I talked to this company.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Why do you want to work at Zalando? What would you do if your colleague was nitpicking.
      Answer question
      1
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      Zalando response
      1y
      review. We appreciate you bringing this issue to our attention and sharing your honest feedback on your candidate experience. Please be assured that this is not the standard we would like to see at Zalando! We will share your insights with the responsible Talent Acquisition teams and will review our processes internally to improve. - Talent Acquisition Team

      Other Senior Backend Engineer interview reviews for Zalando

      Senior Backend Engineer Interview

      4 Sept 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Berlin
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin) in Aug 2024

      Interview

      I had an initial interview with Zalando's internal recruiter and then 2 interviews for the role. Overall I am extremely dissapointed with the experience. During the interview with the recruiter they offered to schedule another another appointment to help prepare and understand the hiring process better, after sharing my availability for this meeting I got ghosted, when I followed up I simply got a generic reply and to let them know if I had any questions (that's what that meeting was supposed to be about) The second interview was a technical interview that consisted on a discussion on my overall experience and an algorythms question that I would put on easy/medium-easy. This was a very satisfying interview with a great professional, sadly the rest of the experience puts a bitter note to this. The final interview I was invited to was a hiring manager interview. The questions for this interview would be what you expect to find after googling "top 10 HR tech interview questions". The barely left 5 min for questions of the schedule time and cut it abruptly after that, clearly no interest in the interviewee asking questions. Initially they informed me that the process is expected to last 20 days, between the 1st and 2nd interview at least half of that time went by.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Algorithm question that involved recursion. I would put it in leetcode easy
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Tell me about a time a manager gave you negative feedback
      Answer question

      Question 3

      What is something you need to improve on
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      Zalando response
      1y
      Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We appreciate you bringing this issue to our attention and sharing your honest feedback on your candidate experience. Please be assured that this is not the standard we would like to see at Zalando! We will share your insights with the responsible Talent Acquisition teams and will review our processes internally to improve. - Talent Acquisition Team

      Senior Backend Engineer Interview

      6 Feb 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Berlin
      Declined offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin)

      Interview

      one technical meeting with team leader wit general technical topics about microservices. Again technical meeting with engineer manager and it was also without coding and talking in general about Rest APIs and 1 online coding meeting with Head of Managers.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Rest APIs , microservices, availability in microservices.
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      1
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      Zalando response
      2y
      Thank you for providing us with this feedback on your interview experience! - Talent Acquisition Team

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