Zalando Working Student interview questions

The process lasted about 2 weeks. The interviewer was very polite and asked whether i want to do the interview in English or German. She took the time to explain me the role in question and what would be expected of me. She asked me all the usual question, nothing too specific or hard to answer.

Applied online, they got back in a couple of days. Arranged skype interview a week later. The job description didn't really match the actual job. It was more of a data-entry position (and there are other positions correctly described, I'm not sure why this one wasn't). It felt more like an immigration interview than a friendly talk. Interview conducted by team lead, who kept asking weird questions and pushing on issues that really have no relation to work quality. For example, at some point, they asked "what tool for X do you use?". Knowing that there are many tools (and honestly I know a lot of them, or could simply google their names) I asked back "Well, I can adapt to any tool you use. What do you guys have there?" and she said something along the lines of "well but I want you to name them". This really has nothing to do with my capabilities or experience. I rightly named a few tools, but could just as well be naming random tools. How would that define me as a candidate? We both are foreign English speakers, and usually, acronyms are hard to gauge. At some point, they asked "What is your experience with XXX?", but they actually spelled out wrong. This completely confused me and I panicked. I said "Honestly, I don't know what that is.", then they said "Well, it was on the job description.", and I asked again a few times to spell it out, when I got what they mean I described my experience. But I found it really weird to imply that I didn't read the job application (which honestly, was inaccurate in the first place) even though it was a simple communication error. Even if I didn't know what that was, again it was something incredibly simple to Google and give a half-baked answer. Overall it was a terrible experience, and I withdrew myself from the process afterwards. I will probably apply again to different positions, but I won't ever apply again to this team (or any team related to it).