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Updated 25 Feb 2025

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Process Duration
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Round 1 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Why do you want to join the company?
  • Ans. 

    I am impressed by the company's innovative products and strong reputation in the industry.

    • Company's reputation for innovation

    • Strong industry presence

    • Exciting product portfolio

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What metrics should we look at for Zalando Lounge
  • Ans. 

    Metrics for Zalando Lounge include conversion rate, customer acquisition cost, average order value, and customer retention rate.

    • Conversion rate: Percentage of website visitors who make a purchase

    • Customer acquisition cost: Cost to acquire a new customer

    • Average order value: Average amount spent by customers per order

    • Customer retention rate: Percentage of customers who make repeat purchases

  • Answered by AI

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Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in May 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

The test was done on codility, two questions in 45 minutes

Round 2 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself
  • Ans. 

    I am a software engineer with 5 years of experience in developing web applications using Java, Spring, and Angular.

    • 5 years of experience in software development

    • Proficient in Java, Spring, and Angular

    • Strong problem-solving skills

    • Experience in developing web applications

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Why are you choosing Zalando

Software Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... read more
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Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
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Result
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Round 1 - Coding Test 

Java machine coding- solved both tasks easily with proper explaination but still rejected

Software Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... read more
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
-
Result
-

I was interviewed in Aug 2024.

Round 1 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. How did your mentoring positively impact a junior's progress?
  • Ans. 

    My mentoring positively impacted a junior's progress by providing guidance, support, and opportunities for growth.

    • Provided regular feedback and constructive criticism to help the junior improve their skills

    • Shared knowledge, resources, and best practices to help the junior learn and grow

    • Offered opportunities for the junior to work on challenging projects and gain hands-on experience

  • Answered by AI

Software Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... read more
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
6-8 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Jul 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Database queries Microservices disadvantages Rest full API System design questions (video player design) Distributed system and transaction management Codedility test (difficult) Idempotency Kafka parti...
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Behavioral questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Zalando share the interview preparation please read them

Software Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... read more
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed before Jun 2023. There were 5 interview rounds.

Round 1 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Why work for Zalando? Salary expectations
Round 2 - Case Study 

Analytical case study

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. About case study
Round 4 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Behavioural questions
Round 5 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Peer interviews

Data Analyst Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Suppose there is a room in the office and X people enter room throughout the day, Y people leave throughout the day [continuously people are entering the room, some are staying there, and rest are going out] .. so tell me the code to calcul... read more
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Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. Why you wanna work in Zalando?
  • Q2. What motivates you?
  • Q3. How is a regular day at your current work?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Smile, be clear and concise, and don't lie

Junior Android Developer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Calculate the length of a table using a bottle, bike , tire , ball. How will you create an App which will give the shortest distance from one point to another point?
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Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

Amazon user image Rajesh Paramanandam

posted on 24 Feb 2017

I was interviewed in Oct 2016.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Aptitude was quite easy they just asked us basic questions from Math,logical reasoning and english
Tips: Just think well before u do..
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 40

Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: It was face to face .. the interviewee asked questions from our resume... Since I m from computer science background they asked some technical questions..

Tips: Beware filling ur resume.. they will ask every stuff that you have in resume

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Discussion about my project that i vr done in my final year.they asked me what was my role in my project

College Name: Sri ganesh college of engineering and technology

I applied via Campus Placement

Interview Questionnaire 

4 Questions

  • Q1. Boundary traversal of a tree
  • Ans. 

    Boundary traversal of a tree is the process of visiting the nodes on the boundary of a tree in a specific order.

    • The boundary traversal can be done in three steps: left boundary, leaf nodes, and right boundary.

    • For the left boundary, start from the root and traverse down the left side of the tree until reaching a leaf node.

    • For the leaf nodes, perform an inorder traversal to visit all the leaf nodes of the tree.

    • For the ri...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Find the nearest greater value of a given value in a BST
  • Ans. 

    Find the nearest greater value of a given value in a Binary Search Tree (BST).

    • Start from the root node and compare the given value with the current node's value.

    • If the given value is less than the current node's value, move to the left subtree.

    • If the given value is greater than the current node's value, move to the right subtree.

    • Keep track of the closest greater value encountered while traversing the tree.

    • Return the cl

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. There is an infinite stair case and there are n rounds. in i'th round we can jump i steps at one or discard them. it is given that k'th step is broken , find the max height we can reach with out stepping o...
  • Ans. 

    Given an infinite staircase with a broken kth step, find the maximum height we can reach in n rounds of jumping i steps.

    • We can start by jumping the maximum number of steps in each round until we reach the broken step.

    • After reaching the broken step, we can discard the i steps that would land us on the broken step and jump the remaining steps.

    • We can continue this pattern until we reach the maximum height we can reach wit

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. Height h was given and form a binary tree of height h and start combining bottom nodes to form a cone like structure

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: there were 20 MCQ which were on ds , networks and basic coding followed by 2 coding questions.
1) print all the distinct substrings of a given string in lexicographical order
2) find the max i-j value in the given array of 0's and 1's such that there are equal number of zeros and ones, where i is the starting index and j is the ending index of the array.
Tips: make sure that you pass atleast half the test cases for both the question.
Duration: 90 minutes
Total Questions: 22

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 1) i printed left view then leaves and right view using three level order traversals . he asked me to use one traversal only, then i told him the approach and wrote the working code.
2) told him the approach and coded it.
Tips: look at corner cases properly. the interviewers were friendly, so i felt relaxed.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 1) i told him a recursive O(2^n) solution, optimised it to O(n^2). he told me to optimise further. Then i finally came up with O(n) solution after 5 min and he was satisfied . i coded it. he was satisfied finally :D .
2) came up with the approach immediately and coded it. he was satisfied.
Tips: he was very particular about corner cases and he checked the code througly tested it on some cases to ensure it was working.

General Tips: be cool. interviewers were friendly. tell them what you are thinking and be clear with the question before answering to avoid wasteage of time.
Skill Tips: solve problems from codechef, spoj and codeforces. solve interview questions from geeksforgeeks and careercup.
Skills: the way you think, coding skills and knowledge on data structures.
Duration: 3
College Name: IIT Roorkee
Motivation: some good seniors got intern, so i was inspired.
Funny Moments: on the interview day a person came into the conference room to call me for interview, i didnt thought he was interviewer. he was very simple, but intelligent and at last i felt like asking him to ask me one more coding question as it was fun solving questions infront of him, but i didnt do that as i was frightened if i would not be able to answer it would be a negative remark :P .

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Data struct,algo,
  • Q2. High level data structs and algos

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Problem Statement
Experience: coding and submission before face to face interview shortlisting
Tips: practice coding ,coding is key to success for SE

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: based on marks ,I was called for F2F
Tips: the ppt was to be submitted explaining the approach

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: a lot of brain storming
Tips: understands the nitty gritty of the structs and algos

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: exact code was to be written instead of pseudo code
Tips: get hold of DS,Algos

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