There are five steps to the Zapier interview process:

Recruiter Interview Hiring manager Interview Take-home programming problem Technical interview reviewing programming problem solution Engineering director interview

Fairly standard software engineering interview process. Each phase had a mix of technical questions and personality questions. Overall, I thought the Zapier interview process was very fair. I enjoyed my conversations and thought the technical problem was a fairly large ask with a short time frame. However, after completing the technical problem and reviewing with their engineers in the following interview, I could tell that the goal was not necessarily to come up with a perfect solution, but just a project to get an understanding of how a candidate works and thinks about technical problems.

The hiring manager asked a handful of system design questions, as well as personality questions, to determine if the interviewee is a good fit for the team and knowledgeable in the tech space.

The take-home tech interview was a provided GitHub project that required the interviewee to spin up a functioning RESTful microservice from scratch.

The service required a functioning database and REST endpoints that interacted with this database for data access and data storage.