IOS Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at The Zappos Family with 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for IOS Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at The Zappos Family overall takes an average of 34 days.
Common stages of the interview process at The Zappos Family as a IOS Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Personality test: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
Group panel interview: 13%
One on one interview: 13%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at The Zappos Family
Interview
I applied online through Jobvite after seeing the position in their website. The first communication I had with them involved me filling out basically the exact same application I filled out initially, but including some of the aforementioned culture fit questions. I was then given a screener questionnaire with some basic questions about iOS development. A week later, I spoke with another recruiter for the cultural fit interview. I felt it went pretty well - the recruiter felt many of my responses were 'awesome'... too many of them, frankly. We had a nice banter about both Zappos's events and culture as well as some analogous culture in my workplace. The emphasis during the cultural interview seemed to be to ensure that you were comfortable working in a very laid back, college-y kind of environment. There were no real curveball questions. The recruiter told me to expect to hear back from the technical team the following week.
I received an email two days later that I had been rejected as other candidates were a better match. I can't imagine what kind of culture fit they are looking for in a candidate – apparently someone with a disingenuously voracious level of enthusiasm. I understand the focus of Zappos to ensure new hires are a good culture fit to the company, but the emphasis placed on culture seemed to be far too high.
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Question 1
How would you design a spice rack for a blind person?
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at The Zappos Family
Interview
The process is pretty long and arduous consisting of first a culture fit phone interview, which I assume anyone can pass if they aren't a serial killer and are at least somewhat friendly to the recruiter. The second phone interview is a technical interview with their mobile dev managers. This is more challenging and very specific to both Zappos and for this position iOS. Lots of memory management questions which stem from the fact that Zappos doesn't use ARC. The last part that I got to was a coding challenge. They send an app with warnings and you have to clear out the warnings and any other bugs you find. Only took a few hours to do, but I ended up having a memory leak because I haven't coded without ARC in years.