I applied online and within a few days received an email from their recruiter to setup an initial screen. We setup a call for the next day. The interview felt more like a casual conversation than an interview. During the call she let me know the next steps would be to complete a coding exercise. She sent me the exercise within minutes of our call ending. The exercise was fairly easy, I finished it that day and emailed the details back that evening. Unfortunately the original position I applied for went away. The recruiter called me to let me know, but also said here was a similar position about to be posted with a different team, and she promised she would walk my resume down to the hiring manager herself when the job posts. In my opinion, this goes above and beyond. Most other recruiters would have sent an email saying sorry, the position is gone. Better luck next time. But not her. I got an email a week or so later saying the hiring manager for the new position wanted to move forward to the next step. I didn't even have to do another coding exercise! I had a 30 minute tech interview with the hiring manager. The call went well and he told me that the recruiter would be in contact to setup the next steps. About a week or so later, I went in for the in-person interview. It was roughly 4 hours with 4 different people, 1 hour each. Even though it was more technical, it still felt just like having a conversation. A lot of back and forth, just bouncing ideas of each other. Two days after the in-person interview, I got a call from the recruiter with an offer, which I happily accepted! The interview/recruiting process with Zillow has been by far the best experience I've ever had. They have a great recruiting team!

- Informational call with recruiter - Technical phone screen with hiring manager (60 min) - Onsite interview: 5 technical interviews + (non-scored) lunch interview Most of the interviews were with potential teammates or adjacent teams. Each interview was pretty well-structured: "I'm going to start by X, then Y, then Z, then leave time for your questions at the end." Each interview included a "culture fit" question as well; together, these mean that the coding portion of the hour was smaller than at some other companies.