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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      19 Jan 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Berlin
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      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
      Answer question
      5

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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

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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

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      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

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