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.
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
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.