The entire interview process was conducted remotely.
After chatting with the recruiter that reached out to me about this role, we set up a phone screen with a couple of the Engineering Managers where I was asked some behavioural questions related to my current work and why I want to join Zendesk etc.
After making through this round the next stage was three one-hour interview sessions where two of them needed to be back-to-back in one day, so I scheduled two of them on one day and the third one on a different day. All of the interviews involved me speaking with a couple of Engineering Managers from Zendesk.
For the two back-to-back sessions, the first session was a pair programming exercise where I was given a question prompt and to implement a solution in my IDE choice while screen-sharing. After a short break, the second session was a system architecture interview where I talked in-length about a system I worked on and answered questions regarding why I made certain choices and to explain in more detail how parts of it worked.
The final interview was a behavioural one where I was asked a project that I worked on from my resume in-depth regarding the decisions I made and challenges I overcame. Some other behavioural questions regarding how I handled conflicts and difficult feedbacks were also asked.
A couple of days after all of the interviews concluded I was extended an offer, but I declined it in the end in favour of one that was slightly better and whose work was a bit interesting for me. I was very happy with the whole interview process as everyone was extremely friendly and nice which helped keep my stress levels very low.
