The interview process started with me applying for the position in zappos career website and contacting the recruiting member in Linkedin. Round 1: The first round was writing a program to parse the JSON structure of the Zappos API get the item images and writing the images into a folder. I made sure the code followed all the standards, was well commented and looked neat. Round 2: The second round was with the recruiting member and it was majorly a behavioral interview. 1. Why do you want to work for Zappos? 2. Will you be willing to relocate? 3. Why should we hire you? 4. What made you choose Zappos? 5. How much salary are you expecting? 6. What do you think about online shopping? I prepared for the interview based on the 10 core values of Zappos and the interviewer seemed impressed with the research I have done. Round 3: It was a technical interview. The position was for an entry level standard. But since I already had 4 years of experience, the interview process seemed easy. Mostly basic core java questions like what is static, what are the different types of access modifiers, what is the difference between abstract class and interface. If the interviewee has good understanding of OOPS concepts and core java this round will be done well. I am still waiting for the results from round 3 and next steps....

To start, I applied online and they got back to me relatively quickly -- within the week. After submitting a basic interview paper, they got back to me again and jumped straight to API development for their website. They gave me a 3 hour exam -- took all three hours -- developing a program in Java that downloads images off their website through the API. Haven't heard back from them yet, but through this interview, I got my resume to Amazon and got an email from THEIR e-commerce department.