I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at ZipRealty in Mar 2016
Interview
I spoke with a recruiter and a team member in 2 separate interviews. Both were very receptive to my answers in the interview, so they sent me a layout test. It was a jpg mockup of a site and they asked to build out a similar web page using either Github, CodePen, Zip file, etc. They went another direction after the layout test.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The recruiter did ask for a salary range to close out the interview. The team member was really great and asked about who I look to in the Front End community aside from some standard JS questions
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at ZipRealty (Emeryville, CA) in Feb 2016
Interview
Process started with multiple phone screens, at the end of the technical phone interview was given a technical challenge involving reproducing a layout using HTML and CSS from a sample image.
After submitting this was asked to come for onsite panel of interviews. Onsite interviews were with a total of 10-12 people separated by individual sessions each with 2 people. The questions were generally repetitive across each of the sessions and in total the full length of the onsite interview at 3.5 hours could have been shaved down to 1 hour if the same questions were not asked over and over. They saved the real technical questions/whiteboarding for the last session and by that point I was a bit bleary-eyed.
At the end of the onsite interview I was told I would be contacted within 48 hours although they never contacted me since, most unprofessional in my opinion.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Standard HR questions, Why do you want to work here? What did you do in your previous roles?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at ZipRealty (Emeryville, CA) in Apr 2013
Interview
Originally had an phone interview with the hiring manager who was very nice and easy to talk to. That interview lead to a second phone interview with the project manager of the Zap team a few days later. The night after that phone interview, I got a call to schedule a in person interview for the next week. The in person interview took 2.5 hours with around 15 people total. I felt that I did pretty good but wasn't able to answer all of their technical questions. After the interview they said that they would be contacting me the next day. I never got a single call. I think it is pretty disrespectful to take much of an applicants time and not even give a call back informing them that they are looking for other candidates.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
White board a function that runs through the Fibonacci sequence and returns the index that is passed in as a parameter.