I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin) in Apr 2020
Interview
Interview process consists of 7 stages: 1) Codility 2) HR 3) Hiring Manager - behavioural 4) General Tech 5) Hiring Manager - technical 6) Coding 7) System Design.
General structure of all mentioned interviews and what to prepare well described in Cracking Code Interview book, as well as similar interview structure have bigger IT companies like Google, Facebook and etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding: Leetcode-like Medium and Hard problems can be expected as a challenge.
System Design: add additional components and explain how they will act in existing ecosystem.
intial call with recruiter and then a coding assessment test. coding was leetcode medium level questions. after that was a live coding interview. for approx 1 hour and then a systems design interview for designing a payment system.
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin) in Oct 2025
Interview
The interviewer was looking desperately tired and unfocused. Didn't join the interview on time. I had to find someone else to ping him to join.
The questions were generic and related. However, it took 2 weeks for the interviewer to send the results of a basic questionnaire to move forward.
I was overall hugely disappointed with that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you ensure the application you are working on meets the performance requirements?
The interview process id extremely time consuming. It has technical coding and general interview questions. The interviews may vary from team to team. The information is around four year old.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Many things, previous employer. Future plans. Coding