Zillow phone interview
I have an upcoming phone interview with Zillow for a senior SDE position. My recruiter told me it will not be a LC style question it's all practical questions but very vague as to what those practical questions would look like. What should I expect? #Zillow #Interview #Zillowgroup #phoneInterview #career #layoff
Just moved from MSFT to Zillow, I had hashmap questions similar to the time based KV and frequency keyword problems. They weren't super strict on optimization and my code didn't need to function as long as I understood edge cases and general good practice. I have been impressed with Zillow so far, I was very uneasy leaving MSFT, but have no regrets especially with a massive TC bump.
Whats ur new TC? Im considering talking to them
220 -> 320 (but some of that is sign on)
They changed this recently. It’s not going to be leetcode style as in not algorithm based problems. Usually you should be able to solve them with data structure knowledge. Know string functions for your programming language well. How to strip, split etc and other data structures like maps and sets. You’ll be fine if you do leetcode. It’s just not very common problems. Zillow made their own problems. Difficulty is below easy to medium. Goal is to check if you know how well you know your programming language and if you handle edge cases etc. especially for senior level you’ll need to look out for edge cases and good coding practices. Good luck
What's the overall interview process?
Phone screen is non leetcode but coding. Mostly a task that you’d do at work. Not hard at all, medium difficulty. Onsite is team dependent. Usually leetcode and system design
Something like this https://leetcode.com/problems/time-based-key-value-store/