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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Oct 24, 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Zillow in Oct 2016

      Interview

      It took a week to get hold of Recruiter until finally he wrote one liner email to schedule initial phone chat. Following week I had a talk with Recruiter who scheduled phone screen interview. The judgement day came and I was ready sling some sword. Interviewer came in 10 min late for interview. I was really disappointed by quality of question. Freaking Fibbonaci. The first program I ever wrote as a programmer. Yes for senior developer position, I was asked to implement program which returns sum of Fibbonaci Numbers in C#. I wrote program in 5 minutes which confused recruiter somehow. So I changed program and wrote it in a different way. He told me it was still wrong. I explained the working step by step and politely asked him to compile and run. (We were using Hackerrank). He couldn't figure out how to run. So I made a quick fiddle on Dotnetfiddle, and dm him a link. He could clearly see how my both approaches were working fine. he argued my program's time complexity in O(square of n), I proved its O(n). Then he argued space complexity of program is more and he have better solution. As you can see we already have spent lot time on stupid things. I really wished he asked me some quality questions and move on for god sake from Fibbonacci. I was really aggravated by inexperience of Interviewer and I was ready to pack my bags for Pisa to find the grave of Fibbonacci and vandalize it. I provided him a method which didn't work due to some typo. He purged program ; provided his solution disregarding 4 different O(n) solutions. Cool. Left on good note , thanked me for showing dotnetfiddle, sent me rejection letter following week. When people say these people want Monkeys to work for them (other interview reviews). They are right except they are wrong with Animal Analogy. They want Donkeys to work for them who listens to them blindly and give birth to their sterile Hinny programs.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Cumulative sum of fibonacci series
      1 Answer
      8
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      Zillow response
      9y
      Thanks for your feedback. We do very often start with more straight forward warm up questions just to get a person comfortable with our screening process and then move to more challenging questions as time permits. We've had positive feedback that candidates appreciate not jumping straight into difficult ones right off the bat. Hopefully that provides some helpful insight - our intention is for that to be positive from a candidate experience perspective. Sorry if that wasn't your experience. Thanks again and best of luck. Annie

      Other Senior Software Engineer interview reviews for Zillow

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 17, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Zillow

      Interview

      Proceso de MESES de coordinacion donde te cancelan las entrevistas apenas instantes antes. Personalmente, entre a una de ellas y la reclutadora insistio en que el entrevistador habia entrado "y yo no", cuando si habia entrado. Completamente una falta de respeto. Su proceso de coordinacion y reforzamiento para que los entrevistadores no esten haciendo tanto rescheduling es PESIMO.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Design interview: Diseniar un sistema de telemetria para tractores
      Answer question
      avatar
      Zillow response
      1mo
      Thank you for sharing your experience. We’re sorry to hear about the challenges you encountered with scheduling and communication during the interview process. That’s not the experience we aim to provide, and we understand how frustrating that can be. Your feedback highlights areas where we need to be more consistent, and we appreciate you taking the time to call this out.

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 24, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Ciudad de Mexico
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Zillow (Ciudad de Mexico) in Mar 2026

      Interview

      Son 6 pasos: El del recruiter El screen > live coding de un problema regular de producción no es tipo leetcode Una vez completados vienen estos son 4 que son con el equipo con el que se llena la vacante: - System Design : white board de un buscador de propiedades que además debe relacionarse con el ecosistema de la empresa. - refactor: live coding de un problema de producción con código feo que hay que acomodar, es mucho lo que se puede corregir y no da tiempo de todo. - engineer: esta es behavioral y se trata de responder en formato star - greenfield : es igual que la de screening pero ahora con alguien del equipo
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      Zillow response
      1mo
      Thank you for outlining your experience with our interview process. We recognize that a multi-step process can feel intensive, and your perspective helps us better understand how it’s experienced end to end. We’re continuously working to make our interviews more thoughtful and well-paced, and insights like yours play an important role in that.

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Oct 13, 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Ciudad de Mexico
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Zillow (Ciudad de Mexico)

      Interview

      Son 6 entrevistas que van desde juntas con los reclutadores, que son las primeras dos, otras 3 son de tecnología, tanto ejercicios en un lenguaje x, de diseño de sistemas. algo mas sobre como trabajas, y otra prueba técnica de otro lenguaje y. Digo lo de x y y porque puede ser variado dependiendo del puesto.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      En diseño de sistemas como diseñaria yo un sistema para correo electronico, y en las otras dos fueron mas tipo completa esta funcionalidad y asi.
      Answer question
      2
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      Zillow response
      7mo
      Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with our interview process. We understand that applying for a senior-level role requires a significant investment of time and preparation, and we appreciate the effort you put into the process. We're continually working to ensure our interviews are as clear, relevant, and respectful of candidates’ time as possible, and your feedback will help us continue to improve.

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