Zalando Junior Software Developer interview questions

The interview process was fairly complicated and long: it took around 3 months from the initial application to the offer. The interview process consists of several parts: - HR Interview, where they describe the role and you have a chance to briefly describe your experience; - Home coding exercise: basic algorithms and data structures. I used LeetCode and the Grokking Algorithms book to prepare and it definitely helped; - Hiring Manager interview, where they elaborate on the role description and ask deeper questions about your relevant experience; - Round of Final Interviews: Coding, System Design and General Tech, each lasting for 1 hour. They can be spread across several days or be all in 1 day, depending on interviewers' availability. I feel like all interviews' difficulty was fair to the role. Zalando has resources for potential candidates, where they describe the interview process and provide recommendations on how to approach each step. Study them, it helps a lot. The only issue I had during the interview process was the waiting times between steps which induced my anxiety and made the whole process more stressful. On the other hand, if you are confident in how you handled previous steps, you can use this time to prepare for next ones.

Quick, easy and straightforward process. Nothing special, nothing bad. The promise of feedback was not upheld though, which was disappointing since I was very interested in getting it. A coding test using Codility, and for general interest 67% is not enough. For me this was a result of solving 2/3 problems, but ran out of time on number 3 unfortunately.