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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      1 Mar 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Zynga (Bengaluru) in Feb 2016

      Interview

      I applied to Zynga through linkedin for their Game Services team, and the process moved really fast. I had one on one interview with the Engineering Director at the SF office, who asked basic concepts (how hashmaps works, write code for find if the given strings are anagram or not etc.). I got call next day morning and f2f interviews were scheduled after 3 days. I met the Engineering Manager for the game services team for the first round, and she largely asked about my current project, how would I go about selecting rdbms vs nosql for a project, and writing code to remove duplicates from a linkedlist etc. Second round was design/architecture round with a senior developer, and we spent the entire time discussing how to design a leaderboard. She was looking at the "sorted set" implementation of redis, which I was not aware of beforehand. Third round was with Senior Engineering Director, who had been in the bangalore office for a visit. He asked basic questions about time/space complexity for the given code snippet and asked me to program how to insert a number in a sorted linked list. After that I met the HR manager, who asked about expected CTC, when can I join etc. and usual HR questionnaire, and told me that they would get back to me in next 2-3 days with their response. I got a rejection mail about a week later.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      How would you design the leaderboard for a million/billion users?
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Find out if two given strings are anagrams of each other or not?
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Insert a number in a sorted linkedlist.
      Answer question

      Question 4

      Remove duplicates from a sorted linkedlist.
      1 Answer
      1

      Other Principal Software Engineer interview reviews for Zynga

      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      28 Sept 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Vancouver, BC
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Zynga (Vancouver, BC)

      Interview

      A bunch of system design, leetcode and behvaiour based questions. The people interviewing were overall very nice and made me feel comfortable during the interview. However the recruiter was horrible, never heard back from her. Tried reaching out but did not respond to emails/phone calls.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      System design for a web crawler.
      Answer question
      2

      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      25 Apr 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Zynga in Mar 2023

      Interview

      Applied through a referral for central tech team. Recruiter contacted me within 2 days. Scheduled an hour interview with the hiring manager. We talked about project experiences, tech stack, one coding problem. I passed this and get scheduled for 4 rounds of virtual interviews. 2 panel interviews about 1:30 hrs each (1 coding and 2 system design), 30 min cultural fit interview with senior director, and 45 min cross functional interview with program manager. All folks were on time and were very friendly.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Manager screen: Arrays vs linked list, microservices architecture, container orchestration etc. Program to find the squareroot of a number rouned to the nearest integer. Leetcode word search Design a web crawler Design a bidding/auction system
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      3

      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      23 Mar 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Zynga (New York, NY) in Mar 2022

      Interview

      I dropped out after the initial phone screen. I have six years gamedev experience and over a decade in web development with experience in multiple languages, but they started with "what is the difference between an object and an interface" and proceeded to move through comp Sci 104 for a principal level position. Change your process, maybe recognize you shouldn't be presenting your higher level candidates with junior-at-best level questions

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      what is the difference between an object and an interface
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      what is the difference between overriding and overloading a method.
      1 Answer
      2

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