I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Zendesk (Singapore)
Interview
I didn't even applied. Was contacted by the recruiter and later asked why did I decide to leave my current company. I didn't even decided I was gonna join just to be bombarded by irrelevant questions by the recruitor. Did a phone interview and was asked a bunch of questions not related to front end development, kinda feel like I was back in school taking an exam. No practical questions. I would suggest recruitor learn how to interview engineers by letting them to do actual coding. It's really useless to test engineers by asking them what does HTML, XML, DOM, CSS stands for. It just shows how little recruiters knows about the work done by engineers.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Are you planning to resign in a year after joining the company?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Zendesk (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2014
Interview
I had two phone interviews, the first with a hiring manager, the second with a member of the team I would be joining. I was then asked to build an application, they gave me a week to complete it. Then I was invited to HQ in SF, there I had 5 interviews in 2.5 hrs.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There was a whiteboard challenge where I was given a certain situation, and asked to code out a situation.
Front End Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Zendesk 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 49.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Front End Engineer roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Zendesk overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Zendesk as a Front End Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
Skills test: 29%
Background check: 14%
Presentation: 14%
One on one interview: 14%
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