Zscaler interview questions

The recruitment team reached out to schedule my interview. Some of my points might be repeated with another review for Engineering Manager frontend but unfortunately it was the same experience Technical Interview (Round 1): - 2 Staff Engineers were taking the interview. - Based on their knowledge, they seemed to be at an SDE1 or, at best, SDE2 level compared to other companies. - They had kind of a sheet set of theoretical questions, asking them one by one. Just like a non technical person asking and looking for keywords, if found, next question Talent Acquisition team had provided a HackerRank link, but these interviewers seemed disinterested in using it to discuss any questions in the editor. Also it was disrespectful both didn’t turned their videos on even for introduction Techno Managerial Interview (Round 2): - 1 Engineering Manager UI took the round. - The guy literally didn’t talked more than 10 sentences in the interview. - Again he had a set sheet of interview questions, asking them on by one. Exactly same behaviour as previous rounds that looking for keywords, if found next question. The more funny thing was that all of these were behavioural questions. And he expected standard google/chatGPT level of answers and not real experiences. None of his questions had a follow up. Literally zero follow up questions. Even if anyone would have said I built chatGPT LLM in 1 day he wouldn’t have a follow up on how is it possible. Feedback: Thank god at-least their HR did a job to share a transparent feedback. - All his questions had explanations with example backed responses but he rejected on a single line that I just mentioned why I left my previous company. Whole rejection based on a single line. The line ‘In my last job I was hired as an IC, but after a while I was expected to do 100% of IC work with managerial work, without reducing any IC bandwidth”. To this the HR said you should have lied diplomatically for this 😀 - Another feedback was that `Tell me a time when you had a wrong hire ?` question had a not up to the mark question. I mentioned I didn’t had wrong hire but I understood the candidate had attitude which I worked upon after the hire, which was a real story. But the interviewer expect you to had a wrong hire. So in order to get hired at Zscaler you should have a wrong hire. Haha - Another feedback point was hilarious - He wrote that I was good at doing both tech and managerial part together, which itself is contradicted by his idea in the first feedback.