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Software Developer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

October 1, 2015
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Process

The interview process was very pleasant and lasted for about a month.

The first round was a screening based on an online technical coding test on HackerRank.

Next was a technical phone interview.

After that, I was invited onsite for three rounds of technical interviews.

All the interviewers were very encouraging and kept dropping hints to guide me to the correct answers.

Questions

Phone interview:

  • Is a binary tree a binary search tree?
  • Given an input file with four billion integers, provide an algorithm to generate an integer which is not contained in the file. Assume you have 10 MB of memory.

Onsite:

  • Merge two sorted linked lists. Questions on time and space complexity.
  • Given a log of pages clicked on Zillow's website by users (sorted by timestamp), find the top ten most clicked 3-page sequences. A 3-page sequence is a sequence of 3 pages clicked by the same user in successive order.
  • Implement an LRU cache.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Zillow Software Developer role in Seattle, Washington.

Success Rate

50%
Pass Rate

Zillow's interview process for their Software Developer roles in Seattle, Washington is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive67%
Neutral0%
Negative33%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Zillow's Software Developer interview process in Seattle, Washington.

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