I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin)
Interview
The process took about 1 month to be completed. I applied and then I was reached out by one of the HR partner 2-3 days after. I had an interview with the HR but it really looked like he was just ticking the boxes of the skills, not really needing for argumentation or clarification on how I applied some skills. Then, few days after I was interviewed with the manager to know more about the technical part of the role. It was a very relaxed conversation to know each other about my experience and how I worked on some projects. Then there were 3 other interviews 1 live coding, 1 system design and 1 technical knowledge. Overall the interviewers were very relaxed and always ready to help without problems. In the end it turned out the they were looking more for software engineers with experience in data which I'm not, but in general the experience was good. The only issue, I sent a couple of email to the HR asking for some clarification about the steps and how to prepare for them but never received an answer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about how to do some operations from terminal, or how to process gigabytes of with not much RAM
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Other Junior Data Engineer interview reviews for Zalando
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin) in Oct 2023
Interview
First Interview was with HR. The interview was scheduled using scheduler. The HR interview was just get to know each other where behavioral questions were asked. Second interview was Hiring Manager interview with some technical questions and live coding on Python and SQL.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1 Python question for live coding
3 SQL question for live coding
The live coding was on codility