Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Zendesk with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 57% positive. To compare, the company-average is 49.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 30 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Zendesk overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Zendesk as a Software Engineer according to 30 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 28%
One on one interview: 23%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 10%
Background check: 9%
Group panel interview: 7%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 1%
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The interview asked me a few questions about why I applied to the role and then the technical part of the interview was to implement asynchronous api calls and process some data from the response, write a unit test and an algorithm problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
implement asynchronous api calls and process some data from the response, write a unit test and an algorithm problem.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Zendesk (Dublin, Dublin) in Apr 2026
Interview
It was a four-round interview:
1. HR screen call
2. Hiring manager
3. Technical
4. One more behavioral interview
After just the HR recruiter's call, they assigned a meeting for the hiring manager. One day before, they cancelled it.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Zendesk (Tallinn) in Jan 2026
Interview
First interview was with HR rep, second one with a technical team lead. There was supposedly a third interview with another technical manager or something, but it seemed they had already a strong candidate in mind, so after second interview I immediately got an email that they had gone the other way.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Zendesk
Interview
The interview process was straight forward. The process moved quickly across the different stages of the hiring process. Questions were related to the job and it's requirements instead of being generic questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Walk through my resume to explain previous experiences