I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Zscaler (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2017
Interview
Zscaler interview was a straightforward process similar to LinkedIn's. A recruiter reached out and then help setup a technical phone screening. After the phone screening, the onsite was approximate 3 hours long. Questions were generally relevant to the company's product and required technical skill set. A strong networking background, or reviewing network fundamentals is recommended.
The recruiters were great at setting up the interview process and quick to respond to any questions. It was a very responsive and comfortable open dialogue.
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Zscaler
Interview
Hiring process has been pretty much straightforward and very quick too.
Initially I had a call with the recruiter. Later immediately he helped in scheduling 4 interview interactions with various team members.
1st interaction: It was technical discussion about my knowledge and previous experience
2nd interaction: it was a deep dive about the various tools and scripting I have knowledge of. Whiteboard’ing was involved
3rd interaction: it was a technical discussion with more day to operations I perform
4th interaction: this was a coding/scripting assessment. They have given couple of python code blocks and was expecting me to run thru and share the expected out. As I was solving I was given 3 questions. Most of them varied from log parsing to building resistive functions.
Few days after I have completed these interactions, Recrutier reached out to me and mentioned there would be a final interaction with Hiring Manager and scheduled a 45 mins interview.
Hiring manager was accommodating and warm. We had a brief discussion on my technical background and later he mentioned if I would like to go with a small coding challenge. I was not prepared but went ahead. He has provided a bunch of string parsing along with inline functions. I was able to go thru them and share the output of each call. And it was a wrap.
With in few days heard back from the HR, they are interested in proceeding with me and provided me a offer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical questions based my previous experience and also coding skills in python, terraform and ansible.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Zscaler with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 53.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Site Reliability Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Zscaler overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Zscaler as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 29%
Skills test: 29%
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 14%
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