I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at The Zappos Family (Las Vegas, NV)
Interview
Phone screen with recruiter then phone screen with hiring manager. On-site interview that lasted 7 hours and included about 12 different interviewers. I was completely exhausted afterwards! Got LOTS of repeat questions, many interviewers were visibly unprepared. Also, be aware that if you're interviewed by some of the 'high-tech' employees they will not make eye contact with you, stare at their laptops during the interview and act like they're not listening. I found this incredibly rude & unprofessional, but I'm not sure if this was a 'test' or not, but I acted like it didn’t bother me and went out of my way to use the guy's name when addressing my answer back to him to get him to look up at me. They direct billed my flight, hotel, hotel breakfast & fed me lunch, but I had to pick up the tab for two dinners & airport parking! Way to cheap out on me Zappos!
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Lots of 'odd-ball' questions, so be ready for things like; "If you could have dinner with one famus person, living or dead, who would it be and why?", "What is the geekiest thing about you and why?"
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at The Zappos Family
Interview
Great interview process.
Interview consisted of phone call with HR, phone call with the hiring manager, then an on-site interview with a few teams. Total process took about 1 month
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Question 1
Questions were a mix of traditional behavioral questions and culture fit questions.
The process was quite typical. Initial phone interview. There was a case study to submit and then an onsite interview. The onsite interview took up the whole day and I was interviewed in teams.
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Describe a situation where you were faced with a challenge.
I applied online. I interviewed at The Zappos Family in Mar 2014
Interview
I applied online, then received an email to complete the video interview. The next stage was a culture fit phone interview with the recruiter. Next I had a phone interview with my potential manager. After that I skyped with two potential team members. Then I was asked to compete a skills test in excel. After all that they offered to fly me out to their headquarters in Las Vegas for an all-day interview (Zappos paid for all my transportation and lodging, it was so great)! While there I took a tour of the office, had another culture fit interview with another recruiter. I also had 2 other interviews with potential co-workers. Two people from my department took me out to lunch and gave me the scoop on what it is like to work there. I then had an interview with a colleague who held similar responsibilities to the role I was interviewing for. Then I met with my manager and the 2 team members I skyped with previously. It was a full, busy, magical day. A few days later I was asked for information to complete a background check, and after it cleared they made me a final offer.
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Question 1
You're shrunk to the size of a nickel and thrown in a blender. The blades are going to star spinning in 60 seconds. What do you do?