I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Zynga in Oct 2019
Interview
Recruiter reached out to schedule 45 minute first round interview at a conference since they saw my resume in conference's resume database. They never responded (>1 month) with moving on to next round nor a rejection.
Coding question was on a laptop with paper notepad available. It was difficult to explain my code during the interview since it wasn't a shared coding environment, just one laptop. My interviewer was across from me, so they couldn't follow my code easily.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Zynga (Bengaluru)
Interview
There were two telephonic rounds followed by 3 face-to-face rounds. The first two rounds went well, and a variety of technical (Python/SQL/Modelling) questions were asked over Coderpad, even though there was some repetition between the two rounds. Each of these interviews were 1.5 hours long. (Also, there was a lot of rescheduling so this happened over a month's time.)
The frustrating part was being interviewed by mostly the same people again in the F2F rounds, and this time for a day long process (except for the interview with the product manager). An exhaustive set of bookish questions from Stats/Modelling/Python/SQL being asked for 2 hours is not required (in my opinion) to judge someone's knowledge or skillset. The same can be achieved with a sample of questions as well. With the interviews dragging so much, a candidate is bound to lose all interest.
PS: The HR was very professional and managed the process well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Almost every possible question covering Statistical tests, logistic regression, clustering, bagging and boosting, Python, SQL.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Zynga
Interview
A lot of interviews and intense. Several PMs are involved in the interview process with the main focus being around data. It's a mix of previous experience with some specific case studies/problems that you have to solve during the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you launch a product (process, markets, etc.)?