Zendesk is truly an awesome company to work for, and for many reasons. I've found the most impactful reasons are their understanding of work-life balance, parental leave (regardless of gender), and their willingness to let their employees innovate and self-manage.
It's really difficult to find something that would be negative about Zendesk. I honestly can't say much, other than perhaps it is difficult to experience the growing pains at times, but that comes with the territory of a fast-paced industry.
Keep looking out for your employees and their families. Salaries are great, but understanding the importance of family life and being ahead of the competition in this regard is extremely difficult to come by.
Too many interviews. Too much pressure to be a unicorn in their code stack. I did three interviews in total, and there were four or five more interviews after that. 1. HR. 2. Manager interview. 3. A live coding test + sub interview. 4. Take-home pro
Recruiter call, then hiring manager interview for a quick live coding exercise, take-home assignment, coding interview to extend functionality on the take-home assignment, system design interview to model a software, and behavioural questions intervi
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
Too many interviews. Too much pressure to be a unicorn in their code stack. I did three interviews in total, and there were four or five more interviews after that. 1. HR. 2. Manager interview. 3. A live coding test + sub interview. 4. Take-home pro
Recruiter call, then hiring manager interview for a quick live coding exercise, take-home assignment, coding interview to extend functionality on the take-home assignment, system design interview to model a software, and behavioural questions intervi
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