Candidates applying for Senior Data Engineer roles take an average of 12 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Zalando overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Zalando as a Senior Data Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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3 hard code questions, that does not bring you any over all knowledge of technology or your skills, that is a not effective filter or way to filter a person or new hires for a potential job or position
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
depends of each experience, seems thez prefer more younger people
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Zalando in May 2021
Interview
This was the most efficient process I've ever seen.
HR replied within 24h to all interactions, and the whole process was very short from first meeting to offer.
The different interviews were:
- HR phone call (30 min)
- Home Assignment: SQL, Spark, Leetcode (medium) (1h30)
- Hiring manager meeting call: home assignment review, SQL, Leetcode (easy) (1h)
- Coding Interview: Leetcode (medium) (1h)
- Data Engineering Questions: Global knowledge questions (1h)
- System Design (1h)
- Culture Fit interview (1h)
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Design a class that will be fed periodical products lists to return top K elements.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Zalando in May 2021
Interview
Applied on LinkedIn. First round was a 2 hr Codility test, 1 sql, 1 Spark coding, 1 regular coding question.
Second round was a 1 hr technical discussion with an engineering lead, which also had plenty of behavioral questions.
Recruiter scheduled a feedback call.Rejected due to lack of relevant experience and skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Codility:
Spark- Read, perform basic transformations and write a file
Coding- Given an array A consisting of N integers, return the maximum sum of two numbers whose digits add up to an equal sum
Technical:
- Focused on current experience and projects, what my responsibilities were and how I executed them.Behavior questions like what motivates you, what do you not like about your job.
- Sql question
- Coding question : Best time to buy and sell stocks to maximize profits