I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Zeal in Apr 2022
Interview
Initial video call with recruiter
Chat with CTO about past experiences
Technical interview working with the engineering team on a problem
Coffee chat with someone not on engineering team
Chat with CEO on experiences and behavioral questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What would you say you're top 1% and bottom 1% (or just not top 1%) of regarding software engineers?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Zeal in Dec 2022
Interview
A couple chats to feel things out with the hiring manager and CTO, followed by a take-home assignment to debug and improve a react/node app (3-4 hours). The meat of the final interview is a review of your take-home, followed by some code-share feature development. The remainder of the interviews are with leadership and members of the team for culture fit and your questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: (during code-share) integrate with this 3rd-party API (given specs) to develop new feature requirements A, B, and C.