Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) Interview Experience - Los Angeles, California
Process
It was one of the worst interviews I have gone through. I cleared the first round, and the manager was quite impressed. The second round was scheduled with an Indian, arrogant SDET. First of all, it was almost midnight for me, but he was so rude from the start. His video was turned off during the whole round.
He asked multiple questions related to Selenium and basic coding exercises, similar to Two Sum. I gave multiple solutions for the first coding problem, but he was stuck with one line: "This will not work."
Next, he jumped on a second problem, which could be solved by Bubble Sort, but by this time, he had tortured me so much mentally that I just gave up. I left the interview in between. I can't work for a company where this kind of misogynist and rude people work.
Questions
Multiple questions related to Selenium, to basic coding exercises similar to Two Sum.
Something related to the maximum number.
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Zscaler Work Experiences
- 1.0Hell for SDET QA profileSoftware Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Former EmployeeMay 17, 2025Pros: As you have to face daily humiliation & toxic from local manager with non QA background at Mohali office They show no empathy or understanding treating as inferior. They need immediate attention to prevent further harmCons: If you are in Sdet qa profile ..welcome to hell
- 2.0Poor work culture and HR processesSoftware Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Current EmployeeJune 6, 2022Pros: - Good salary - Not much politics - Work life balanceCons: - 3 months notice period ( Worst thing) - Very less employee friendly policies. - Poor work culture - Processes are not streamlined.
- 1.0A company in decline - just ask any major investment firm or honest employeeManager, Technical Success • Current EmployeeSan Jose, CADecember 3, 2025Pros: None from my perspective. Zscaler is quickly becoming an obsolete company.Cons: The main reason that Zscaler continues to decline is because of the incredibly poor management and "leadership" teams. They've taken an energetic, upbeat, and cutting-edge team and turned them into a unmotivated, demoralized, and unappreciated collective of workers, most of which are already looking for other jobs. Leadership does not believe in customer success or professional services teams and constantly refers to them as "liabilities". This is also shown in that they no longer care about involving these teams with the company SKO or even regional team meetings that they've promised would be soon for the past two years. Morale on customer success and professional services teams are at a historic low because the current chief customer officer and his lackeys do not care about the teams doing the work. They would rather outsource implementations to third party companies and make professional services clean up the mess they create once the customer then comes back complaining about a broken implementation. Pathetic outcomes created by even more pathetic "leadership", who operates only on fear and micromanagement. Zscaler continues to fail because the wrong leaders are in power. Attrition will continue to expand (either through resignations or from the rolling waves of layoffs that management does without notice). Working here is hell and you don't know from one day to the next if today is the day some "leader" you've never met decides that you're no longer needed.
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