Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Zynga with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 53% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 72 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Zynga overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Zynga as a Software Engineer according to 72 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 15%
Group panel interview: 8%
Background check: 8%
Personality test: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Presentation: 3%
Other: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Zynga (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2011
Interview
I went through a phone screen during which basic questions related to time complexity, sorting algorithms etc were asked.
Then I was called on site and had 5 rounds of interviews. All of them except the last 2 involved white boarding.
First round was about basic computer skills and was asked pretty basic questions on printing individual characters in a string normally, then using recursion and some more pretty basic questions
Second round was related to Frontend engineering, and was asked questions on prototype in JS, implementing inheritance in JS, cross domain communication
Third round was related to architecture and design and was asked to design the client-server communication for a Zynga game like Farmville where a tile was dug. The interviewer seemed to have his own thoughts on how it should be approached and didn't take any other suggestions positively
Fourth round was more like discussion on technology, a puzzle question, interests etc
Fifth round was by the CTO and was more like selling Zynga prospect to me, finding from me about what the practices in my former company were, my interest levels etc
Overall, I was very confident and managed to sail through all rounds with ease. The work culture seemed to be casual (no real coding standards, ci guidelines etc which is fine for a hacker). I heard though that the stress levels are high when they expect you to finish coding a game in 2-3 days.
But the end result of my interview wasn't good. I was told there was no fit at the moment and will be kept on file for future prospects. No real feedback though. It could be because I haven't shown enough interest or that I really did bad in the interviews without my knowledge when I thought I sailed through all of them pretty comfortably
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I completed the hiring questions panel with a current employee and someone from HR and then did a timed coding assesment that lasted an hour and was mostly data structures and algorithms.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Zynga (Bengaluru) in Sep 2024
Interview
The interview was difficult and consisted of mixed questions. It had 2 tech rounds and 1 difficult managerial round as well. It took interviews in an online mode on zoom.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interview in its 1st round had dsa questions and also had cs core ques. In later round it had design level questions as well.
It was ok. It is like usual interviews. Manager was ok but you have to prepare what you asked before interview. I was good intention at all. I suggest to all my friends