Junior Frontend Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California
Process
I applied online. The process took two months.
- OA: Four LeetCode questions.
- Recruiter Screen: Asked about resume, compensation expectations, and location.
- HM Interview: Some behavioral and some technical questions.
- Technical Interview 1: Some technical questions and live coding a frontend component.
- Technical Interview 2: An algorithmic-style frontend live coding question.
The interview criteria itself was fine. However, for the two technical interviews, both interviewers failed to show up even though the recruitment coordinator scheduled the interviews with me and the interviewers. We had to reschedule, but I found it rather unprofessional as I had taken a sick day that day just to interview with them and they missed the interviews.
Questions
Technical questions about React, JavaScript, and Redux. There was a live coding portion where I was given some mock data and asked to render it in a list and be able to filter it. I was also asked about optimisations.
Then I had to design a function that does text highlighting. The parameters were:
- A string which represents text to highlight.
- A string which represents some HTML which has text within it.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Zoom Junior Frontend Engineer role in San Jose, California.
Success Rate
Zoom's interview process for their Junior Frontend Engineer roles in San Jose, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Zoom's Junior Frontend Engineer interview process in San Jose, California.
Zoom Work Experiences
- 5.0Great company and cultureSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Jose, California, United StatesMarch 18, 2021Pros: Everything is great here. People are so nice and friendly in engineering.Cons: No 401k. Very surprised when everything else is so good.
- 5.0We deliver a superior product and customer experienceProject Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Jose, California, United StatesMarch 19, 2021Pros: The underlying principle with Zoom is to deliver happiness: happy customers and happy employees. Zoom has been delivering a superior product for years before the pandemic took hold in 2020.Cons: There are no cons. Our product remains a super simple, reliable, easy-to-use solution versus the complicated products offered by others.
- 3.0Beware of the long working hours and incompetent product leadersSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeSan Jose, California, United StatesMay 8, 2023Pros: Pay was decent, except that the stock only started vesting after 1 year. Eric Yuan is a leader with empathy.Cons: 1. Have to work China hours if you speak Mandarin, which leads to bad WLB. 2. The product head and PMs don't know what they are doing, so there's little revenue in the product. Hard-working engineers were let go. 3. Managers are incompetent to manage.
