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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      18 Jun 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Dublin, Dublin
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Zalando (Dublin, Dublin) in Jan 2018

      Interview

      I got referred by an employee. During the first phone call I was given a "homework" interview problem. I'd call it medium since it wasn't very complicated, but required some work. After I've sent my solution back to recruiter I waited a week to get any reply. Then I forwarded the same e-mail again. The response was as if I just sent it the first time - "we'll forward it to engineers". Two months after the day I've sent my first e-mail I got an update telling me that they want to invite me to onsite interview and that they'd contact me with possible options. It was three months ago. I contacted recruiter recently and told that I'm not interested in position anymore (I hoped to get any response - still nothing). So in total I've spent 5 months of waiting with no results and wasted two evenings while solving the interview problem.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      NP-complete problem for "homework"
      Answer question
      9
      avatar
      Zalando response
      7y
      While we are happy to hear that you were referred by a current employee for this role, we understand your frustration with the waiting time and not receiving a response. Thank you for sharing this comment and feedback with us which we will use to improve our recruiting process. If you would like to give direct feedback to us, please feel free to reach out to me personally (manjuri.sinha@zalando.de). — Manjuri Sinha, Lead Technology Recruitment

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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      4 Dec 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Berlin
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin)

      Interview

      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.

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      10 Feb 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Berlin
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      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?
      Answer question

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      30 May 2025
      Anonymous employee
      Helsinki, Southern Finland
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      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
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