I applied online. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin) in Apr 2021
Interview
Horrible Organization! Seems like no proper interview process is in place. They follow ghosting culture, and no proper feedback is provided. It's a waste of time. Avoid if possible!
I applied online and received a codility test. I aced it and had 2 screening rounds scheduled
1. Codility Round
2. Technical Screening (Coding + System Design)
3. HR/Team Compatibility round
After positive feedback from those rounds, I had 5 further rounds on a single day.
1. Coding + General Tech Discussion
2. System Design (HLD+LLD + Coding)
3. General Tech Discussion + System Design
4. Hiring Manager (Tech)
5. HR
I am highly confident that I did excellent in all of them. All the questions were average and easy to solve/answer, and interviewers seemed quite happy with answers. The HR said he would get back after a week. He started ghosting my messages. Didn't even give a feedback or a rejection mail.
intial call with recruiter and then a coding assessment test. coding was leetcode medium level questions. after that was a live coding interview. for approx 1 hour and then a systems design interview for designing a payment system.
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin) in Oct 2025
Interview
The interviewer was looking desperately tired and unfocused. Didn't join the interview on time. I had to find someone else to ping him to join.
The questions were generic and related. However, it took 2 weeks for the interviewer to send the results of a basic questionnaire to move forward.
I was overall hugely disappointed with that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you ensure the application you are working on meets the performance requirements?
I interviewed at Zalando (Helsinki, Southern Finland)
Interview
The interview process id extremely time consuming. It has technical coding and general interview questions. The interviews may vary from team to team. The information is around four year old.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Many things, previous employer. Future plans. Coding
