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Software Engineering Interview

22 Feb 2021

Anonymous interview candidate

Los Angeles, CA

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Software Engineering Interview

25 Nov 2018

Anonymous interview candidate

San Francisco, CA

No offer

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Software Engineering Interview

22 Feb 2021

Anonymous interview candidate

Los Angeles, CA

Other Software Engineering interview reviews for Zillow

Software Engineering Interview

25 Nov 2018

Anonymous interview candidate

San Francisco, CA

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied online. I interviewed at Zillow (Los Angeles, CA) in Oct 2020

Interview

First round was hackerrank live with 2 algorithm questions leetcode medium. Final round was 2 interviews with different engineers, one algorithms interview easy. One python data manipulation interview. Overall a fair interview process.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Is the binary tree symmetric. Count duplicate values in a string.

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Zillow response

Thank you for sharing your interview experience. Feel free to contract me at annie@zillowgroup.com if you have additional feedback. -Annie Rihn, VP of Recruiting

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Zillow (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2018

Interview

Dropped my resume at my university career fair, and had an on campus interview. I then got called to an onsite interview at their office in San Franscisco. Here, I had 2 small interviews, and a presentation with 3 other prospective interns.

Interview questions [2]

Question 1

When should you clear cache?

1 Answer

Question 2

Explain all the steps between submitting a form and seeing the resulting webpage (after form submission).

1 Answer

Software Engineering Interview

10 Nov 2017

Anonymous employee

San Francisco, CA

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Zillow (San Francisco, CA)

Interview

1st round: Phone screen - basic questions about past projects, experience, interests within SWE 2nd round: Batch day that students were flown in for. Two back to back technical interviews in the morning, engineering presentation, and finally a group project to work on

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Write a method to determine if a string2 is a substring of string1?

2 Answers