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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

June 1, 2019
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online. Had a call with the recruiter. Then a phone interview with live coding. The tech interviewer went straight to the coding exercise at the start of the interview. The question wasn't that tough, and after a few deliberations, I was able to solve the problem. The interviewer then talked about a home coding exercise which I would be asked to do, and I should be expecting an email regarding that.

Ten minutes after the completion of the interview, I received this automated rejection email. I was surprised. Seeing the rejection email, I sent an email to the recruiter for some feedback on where I felt short. No response. I feel like I went through a SHAM interview, as is so common in Silicon Valley (to sponsor the visa folks?). Total disgrace!!

I had applied at Zendesk as I heard good things about them, but this experience left a bad taste in me, and it tells a lot about the culture and what it must be like working over there!! Never again!! Not worth wasting time for such horrible companies!!

Questions

Usual LeetCode nonsense.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 13 interview experiences for the Zendesk Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

31%
Pass Rate

Zendesk's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive54%
Neutral23%
Negative23%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Zendesk's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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