The Zappos Family Frontend Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

So the interview was a three part thing. First, I talked to the internal recruiter just to see if I was a good culture fit. Then, I had a behavioral chat with the Hiring Manager for the team. Finally, there was a technical interview with a panel of Zapponians, who are basically Zappos employees. These Zapponians were engineers on the team I'd be joining. This last part was a solid two hours long and broken down into a few bits. The first 30 minutes had more behavioral and technical questions. Then, for the next 30 minutes, I had a code challenge to build a UI component. There were usually two Zapponians on the panel, often one experienced interviewer and someone learning to interview. After about an hour, the people would switch out, and I'd meet two new team members, again one experienced and one newer person. The second hour started with another 30 minutes of technical/behavioral questions, and then the last 30 minutes was another code challenge. This second code challenge was focused on programming, specifically using javascript to make different functions for sorting or mapping data. Everyone I met was really nice and took the time to introduce themselves and answer my questions patiently. It was a really good experience overall.

I got contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn and had a quick 20-minute call. After that, they scheduled an hour-long video interview for two days later. The first half involved me talking about a past experience and how I handled it, followed by a coding challenge to create a tabbed web component. A few days after that, I had a three-hour panel interview with several developers. They asked more experience-based questions and then gave me coding challenges, including button manipulation, backend calls/routes, and building a carousel from scratch with vanilla JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Although I didn't get the role after a few days, the interviewers were really nice and the atmosphere was chill. I learned a lot about my own skills and where I need to improve. It looks like a great company, and whoever gets an offer there will be lucky.

Got contacted by a recruiter, then had an initial screening. After clearing that, I was invited for a 1-hour tech screening. Even though I felt I did pretty well in the interview, it's been over 3 weeks with no response. I followed up, but still no word. It's disappointing to be ghosted, especially when a company like Zappos talks about 'WOWing' people and then doesn't even bother to reply to candidates.