I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Zoom Communications in Jun 2026
Interview
A recruiter reached out and lined up the interview with the hiring manager and 4 other people. I think they were a little unprofessional. I had an interview with an engineer Jim who had set his mind before he even talked to me. He spent 26min with me instead of 45min and he was not eager to learn anything about me. He just firmed up his bias.
Now that is all OK in general. The problem I have is that they should have shown him my resume before they even started. I am pretty sure he blocked people previously, so if I would lead the recruiting team I would present Jim with the resume upfront. This would avoid the experience I had with Zoom recruiting. The other 4 interviews were just fine. The nail in the coffin was me not knowing what all the protocols for WebRTC are. I told him it uses SIP,RTP and the ICE framework and also said that there are APIs to call. AI told me these are not bad answers, I should have mentioned DTLS and RTCP. But in any case if you interview with someone who is biased then these small things can make or break the experience.
Overall I think the Zoom recruitment team did a terrible job. They also only talked to me in the initial outreach. It was all very anonymous and half hearted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The nail in the coffin was me not knowing what all the protocols for WebRTC are.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Zoom Communications (Amsterdam) in Mar 2026
Interview
The Talent Acquisition team seems to be navigating their hectic workload in the best way they can. Communication is always delayed, sometimes by weeks. Interview is somewhat structured, but no feedback was given even after a follow up reminder
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Relevant experience and tenure
Market layout familiarity
I interviewed at Zoom Communications (New York, NY) in Oct 2025
Interview
Was supposed to be there for a phone screen interview, but the whole thing was insane. Their tool was wonky and had issues setting up the whole thing. I finally get it and then I get ghosted by Zoom in a Zoom call. No apologies. I just get a quick text halfway through the interview period that the interview is canceled and someone will follow up with me. I got a form email. I was seriously not impressed.
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