Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Zinnia with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 22.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Zinnia overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Zinnia as a Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Drug test: 17%
Group panel interview: 17%
Background check: 17%
Other: 17%
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You need to go through first hr round for initial screening and second round for technolgy based for technical questions
And third one is managerial round regarding the project and experience questions
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Zinnia (Bengaluru) in Oct 2025
Interview
First Round was an Online HackerRank based Assessment (included 2 Questions ; 1 was Leetcode Medium and the other one was Leetcode hard)(duration - 70 min)
Interview Round - 1 : Technical Interview consisting of
I) OOPS(C++/Python)(Python preferred)
II) DSA - Leetcode easy
III) SQL(until joins)
Interview Round - 2 :
It was an HR Round;
but was also asked about latest AI trends(Agentic AI & MCP's)
and also some Probability
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you stay updated about the latest ongoing AI trends?
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Zinnia (Hyderābād) in Sep 2025
Interview
Round 1: 3 coding question in college - medium
Round 2: Technical Interview at zinnia office-Projects, SQL,DSA,JAVA OOPS
Round 3: HR Interview at Zinnia office immediately after Technical Round of Interview
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Zinnia (Hyderābād) in Aug 2025
Interview
It was good, they asked basic questions from my resume
2 DSA questions in first round , one to reverse a set of 10 numbers and in 2nd round 2 sum problem with some modification of leetcode
some DBMS, SQL , OOPs basic questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They first asked about the projects which was related to sql and DBMS so , they asked so many questions from that
Then OOPs questions and 2 DSA questions , one was reverse of a string and other was palindrome check .
In 2nd round they gave two DSA questions
one was 2 sum problem with all pairs that make the given sum
second was to find how many string in a vector are similar to a given string in cyclic manner.