Interview process from start to finish was a refreshing change of pace and one that ultimately helped me decide to take the offer. First stage was a take-home coding exercise consisting of building a widget akin to one you might find on the Zillow site. Next came a phone screen which was done via HackerRank. As fate would have it, my internet connection went down right as the interview was about to begin. I emailed the interviewer asking for patience as I tried to tether my phone. LTE was strong enough to conduct the interview and the interviewer was incredibly understanding throughout. The interview itself consisted of several questions both on CSS styling and JavaScript functionality. The in-person interview almost didn't happen. I arrived 30 minutes early to the interview and the power went out in the entire downtown area 4 minutes after I arrived (this combined with the internet outage from the phone screen briefly had me thinking the universe had other plans for my employment). After my first 1-1 started we were interrupted and told everyone was being sent home for the day. Not having additional personal days to take and a vacation that started the very next day I didn't want to delay this stage any further. I asked if there was any way I could continue the interview. The team agreed which was an especially big ask since the air conditioning was also out forcing subsequent interviews in the loop to move to increasingly larger rooms to avoid the heat buildup. None of them allowed any of these circumstances to hinder the interview process. All of the technical questions were creative and more relevant than I had been used to. Most importantly the interviewers made me feel completely at ease every step of the way.

Simply the worst experience ever! The first recruiter called me without preparing and spent 15 minutes straight to read through some papers then asked some silly questions such as "Do you know HTML?" even though the role is Senior Front End Engineer. The second recruiter sent an email a week after that to schedule a technical interview via phone with an engineer from Zillow. This is weird because I'm supposed to do some coding but the interview is scheduled to talk to the engineer via phone. On the day of the interview, the engineer didn't call. I then received an email from Zillow to apologize and ask me for some time slots to reschedule the interview because the engineer couldn't make it. I replied back immediately but haven't still received any reply from them. It's totally a waste of time. I guess the hiring is frozen after they laid off 2000 people.