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SDE 1 Interview Experience

December 23, 2024
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online. The process took two months. It's very delayed and frustrating. I filled out a Google form in October and received an OA link after fifteen days, which was LeetCode medium to hard with three questions to be solved in 120 minutes.

After two weeks, I got a call saying I'm shortlisted for a technical interview round on November 4. The call was scheduled for November 11, but it was rescheduled and happened on November 14 due to some internal issues. The interview went well, and I was asked two LeetCode hard questions.

I got the call for the next round on November 27, saying I got positive feedback from the interviewer, which was three weeks after the interview. She told me she would schedule the interview, but did not schedule it and wasn't answering my calls for three days. She kind of ghosted me. I called her again on December 2, but she couldn't schedule the interview as the interviewer was busy, and she again ghosted me for four days and was not answering my calls or emails. Then finally, on December 9, she scheduled the meeting, and it was a tech plus fitment round. But in the interview, I was not asked fresher-level questions, and not even a single fitment question was asked.

Later the next day, I got a rejection email. This company wasted my two months. They scheduled interviews only when I called them, only to ask irrelevant questions in the final round and reject me.

Questions

The questions were the trapping water problem and Alien Dictionary from LeetCode.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Zeta SDE 1 role.

Success Rate

50%
Pass Rate

Zeta's interview process for their SDE 1 roles is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral0%
Negative50%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Zeta's SDE 1 interview process.