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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      29 Oct 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Berlin
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin) in Sept 2017

      Interview

      I applied at Zalando on position of Senior Software Engineer at September 2017. After 1 week of waiting HR manager contacts me, sent information about company and schedule online (hangouts call) interview. At this interview we speak about my future position and about my expectations about this job. Also manager give some advice about things that may help me get positive feedback from interviewers. After that she schedule 3 online interviews with developers. Two of interviewers were just random engineers from Zalando and one of them was Data Scientist from team where I applied. At first interview, after introducing section, I was asked to solve some small coding tasks in Python and answer general questions: - REST, REST vs SOAP - Are you familiar with Circuit breakers, retries.. I must admit that my answers were not the best. But at all process of interview Zalando engineer was pleasant and helpful and left great experience after all. Second interviewer was Data Scientist from team in which I have applied. There was also coding task for 20 mins and some talk about my previous experience and work expectations. And again I must admit that interviewer was very helpful and positive. At third interview I also asked to introduce myself and my experience, after that I had strange coding task (where you not need not only write working code but also "beautiful" in the understanding of the interviewer), after that I was asked to explain in details how HashMap works. I must admit that my answer for that question was a bit general: I told interviewer about underlying array, about hash function and about process of underlying array resize (just because last time I write HashMap at university). But interview at his review mentioned that this fact means that I can claim myself only as Junior Software Engineer (because of big gaps in knowledge). I think that it is a really strange review. After interview a was waiting for 3 weeks to get rejection email. I must admit that HR manager was very helpful for all this period. So, in general: - Process seems to be a little prolonged - HR manager is helpful and interviews (except one) are seems to be adequate and interesting

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Detailed explanation of HashMap
      1 Answer
      8

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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      4 Dec 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Berlin
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin)

      Interview

      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.

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      10 Feb 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Berlin
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      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?
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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      30 May 2025
      Anonymous employee
      Helsinki, Southern Finland
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      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.

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      Question 1

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