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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      14 Nov 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      Declined offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Zulily (Seattle, WA) in Sept 2016

      Interview

      It was a casual environment and the team ensured a comfortable conversation. Everyone i met in the panel detailed the Zulily culture and shared their experiences. I hear from Zulily alumni that they are understaffed and hence do not offer a great work life balance.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Design the database model for movie ticketing system.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Develop a scalable twitter feed filter system which builds a public sentiment every minute.
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Reverse a sentence but not the words
      2 Answers
      6

      Other Senior Software Engineer interview reviews for Zulily

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      22 Nov 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Zulily (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2018

      Interview

      Overall it was 4 interviews; 2 coding 2 sys des 1 casual lunch. I met with 2 senior engineers, a principal engineer, the hiring manager, and another manager for lunch. I can't even be bothered with pleasantries for this one. The interview with the principal was really dumb because he would rant and state that he is trying to be politically correct and non-offensive about conversation that wasn't offensive while being offensive in the things he was actually being crappy about. For some reason even though it was a cloud company interviewing a cloud engineer for a cloud position, he asked me an operating systems question; design a process scheduler on a single host with 4 CPUs. Why am I being asked a question on a topic I've studied way back in college? At first he wanted code and then clarified that he wanted design, like how do you mix those two up? We also had a terrible technical discussion: I was also asked to hyper deep dive into the five disadvantages of my chosen programming language and to give detailed examples. Like are you kidding me I can't even think of five disadvantages to driving much less a programming language.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      You are deploying something to a host machine that has multi CPUs and some RAM. You can only read a file of priority-to-work mapping one time and you need to complete them in some way.
      Answer question

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      15 Mar 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      5 Oct 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Zulily (Seattle, WA)

      Interview

      1 phone screen and 4-5 onsite coding rounds. All the rounds were CS heavy with algorithms and data structures being the forefront. There was no scheduled breaks between hour long coding rounds. There was no follow-up post the on-site round which was very disappointing.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Standard problem solving questions like blackjack and combinatorial questions
      Answer question
      2

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Zulily (Seattle, WA)

      Interview

      This company was a hot mess. The initial contact with the recruiter was fine. Every interaction after that was disorganized, unprofessional, and communicated a strong air of "I hate working for this company". The tech screen asked a nonsensical question that they admitted was untested and incorrect. The five interviews in the in-person were repetitive, asking the same sort of question five times, with utter disinterest on the part of the interviewers. Never been in a workplace with such oppressively low morale.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Textbook DSA questions, often communicated poorly.
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      Zulily response
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      I’m sorry to hear that you did not have a good experience interviewing with us – thank you for sharing your feedback. As much as making a good impression is important for the candidates we talk to, it’s equally, if not MORE important for us as a hiring team to make a good impression on you, and it sounds like we did not do this for you - I'm sorry. Please feel free to reach out to me should you wish to offer more specific feedback on your experience. – Bill French, Head of Talent Acquisition