I applied online. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin) in Nov 2021
Interview
it took almost two months.
1. Online coding challenge(with three questions),
2. HR Call
3. Technical interview + another coding challenge !!
4. Final interview (
a. technical interview (very rude and offensive interviewer)
b. Another coding challenge (another rude and offensive behavior)!!!
c. HR talk
d. system design interview
all in one day.
5. Get rejected
why they were rude? Generally, when you have an interview with a candidate, you would show your happy face, NOT "I DONT LIKE YOU AND I AM ANGRY" face. During my second technical interview, he participated in the meeting with 5 minutes delay, without say "I am sorry" ! and he just said :
hi. lets start the interview ... with a very serious and angry face and he asked me what is the Object Oriented Programming ? you are asking this question from a person with 10 years of experiences ???
and he asked me about some strange time complexity problems which remains me about university exams.
Then he asked me what is ACID ???
you could answer all the questions from wikipedia !!
And the sad part is , during the entire interview process, no one asked me , even a single question about my work experiences !!
After this step, during the third codding challenge interviewerguy told me, here is the question (which was a very difficult question ) and while you are doing it, I will do my own work! When you finish, let me know!
And he started to concentrating on his laptop !! no interaction, no help, no conversation !!
before taking apart in the interview, I had read here on glassdor that everything is based on luck, when you have an interview on Zalando! and I wanted to say, its 100 % true.
Other than that difficult question which generally FAANG companies ask, their behavior was totally rude.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
some general question about micro-services
what is OOP ?
what is ACID
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.
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?
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