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← Zillow

Staff+ Frontend at Zillow

FrontendStaff+Rejected◆ Commonly asked· 2024

Staff frontend interview. Balanced across coding, design, and collaboration.

The loop · 5 rounds

01

Round 01 · 3 questions

DSA / Coding

Data structures & algorithms on a whiteboard or shared editor.

  • Word ladder — shortest transformation sequence.
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #bfs#graph
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
  • Sliding window maximum.
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #deque#sliding-window
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
  • Maximum subarray (Kadane).
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #array#dp
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
02

Round 02 · 1 question

Low-Level Design

Object-oriented / low-level design of a focused module.

  • Design a virtual DOM diffing model.
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #oop#algorithms
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
03

Round 03 · 2 questions

System Design

High-level architecture of a large-scale system.

  • Design a component/design-system architecture for many teams.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #frontend#design-system
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
  • Design a web crawler.
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #queues#dedup#scale
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
04

Round 04 · 1 question

Hiring Manager

Scope, ownership, and role-fit discussion with the manager.

  • How do you grow junior engineers on your team?
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #mentorship#leadership
05

Round 05 · 2 questions

Behavioral / HR

Values, collaboration, and past-experience (STAR) questions.

  • Describe a time you improved a process or tool for your team.
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #ownership#star
  • Tell me about the hardest bug you have debugged.
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #debugging#star

Practice each round across every company

  • DSA / Coding
  • Low-Level Design
  • System Design
  • Hiring Manager
  • Behavioral / HR

◆ This experience is composed from commonly reported questions for this role and level. Real, individually-shared interviews will be layered in over time.