Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at The Zappos Family with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 51% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 38 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 Software Engineer according to 38 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 26%
Skills test: 23%
Personality test: 14%
One on one interview: 14%
Group panel interview: 9%
Background check: 6%
Presentation: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Other: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at The Zappos Family (Las Vegas, NV) in Apr 2014
Interview
I submitted a resume through their website. They emailed me a coding challenge, and I emailed them back some Java code that successfully performed some interactions with the Zappos API.
I passed the challenge, so I moved on to a phone interview with a lady in HR. She asked me a bunch of personality questions. If you research Zappos culture you'll know how to easily answer these. :-) Definitely make the impression that you're fun and would enjoy socializing with your co-workers after-hours. She also asked my salary expectations, so don't let that question catch you by surprise.
A few days later I had a phone interview with a guy in Engineering. We did another online coding challenge, in Java again. He expected me to solve a string parsing question in a certain way, but I over-analyzed it and bombed the question. In retrospect, if I was just a little more familiar with all of the basic String functions in Java, I might have made it further through the interview process. My bad! Lesson learned: Master the fundamentals! :-)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Search for a character in a string and split the string based on the character.
I applied online. I interviewed at The Zappos Family (Las Vegas, NV) in Jan 2022
Interview
Standard, had to do a set of brain teaser questions within 45 minutes. Difficulty was moderate, one question was about data structures and the other was basic string manipulation. The interviewer was available for questions and guided me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name a time in the past that you have had to contribute to a team and what you did.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at The Zappos Family
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter based on my qualifications. I was sent a code challenge to complete over the weekend and then was scheduled for the culture fit interview. Once I completed the culture interview, I was scheduled for a technical interview with the hiring manager.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at The Zappos Family
Interview
Got contacted by an Amazon recruiter on LinkedIn to invite me to apply to one of their offers.
We then scheduled a first phone call to talk about my profile and the position.
The recruiter never called and didn't answer my LinkedIn messages afterwards.
Complete waste of time.