Zillow Mock Interview

Practice 30 Zillow interview questions covering product thinking, data analysis, and real estate tech.

WRITTEN BY RACHELLE ENNS
QUESTION 5 OF 30

If you had to choose just one, what would you consider your primary technical specialty?

Rachelle Enns
Rachelle Enns
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
What You Need to Know

The interviewer wants to know your specialties, particular areas of expertise, and what makes you a unique candidate. Talk to the interviewer about your strengths and be sure to highlight any specific skills you excel at. It's a great idea to highlight particular skills listed inside the Zillow job description.

Rachelle Enns
Rachelle Enns
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
Example Answer

"Technically speaking, my one greatest strength is in my front-end expertise. I love making pragmatic architecture recommendations and providing sound decisions that guide the development process."

Rachelle Enns
Rachelle Enns
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
Example Answer 2

"I have been focusing my career on becoming a senior data engineer and would say that data pipeline architecture is my primary technical specialty."

Community answers are written by other candidates practicing this set. Reading how others frame the same question is one of the fastest ways to sharpen your own.

Anonymous Answer

Decoding complicated companies into simple and influencing decision-makers to allocate meaningfully to what others might see as "black boxes." As an investor, I have studied hundreds of businesses so I can readily distinguish between "evolutionary" and "innovative". I've been in and around housing for my entire career, I have well-established relationships throughout the industry and my passionate purpose is to help solve part of the housing puzzle that helps a platform like Zillow scale profitably over time.



I'm also a naturally curious and self-propelled generalist investor that has studied hundreds of different businesses so I can spot "incremental" from a mile away and my natural curiosity draws me towards quite interesting and disruptive business models.

Cindy's Feedback

Good start. It sounds like you have a lot of valuable skills, but think about how you'd narrow your answer at first to clearly describe your primary technical specialty which you could then develop into a more general answer.

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30 Zillow Interview Questions & Answers

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01 How is Zillow transforming the future of real estate? EXPERIENCE 02 Who are Zillow's top competitors? Name one factor we do better than the rest. EXPERIENCE 03 Zillow is seeking candidates who possess a degree in Computer Science or another technical discipline. Walk me through your education. EDUCATION 04 We primarily lean on React, Redux, Node.js, Java, Python, and SQL. With which language are you most familiar? EXPERIENCE 05 If you had to choose just one, what would you consider your primary technical specialty? EXPERIENCE 06 In your opinion, describe the most exciting advancement in the real estate industry this year? EDUCATION 07 What types of industries have your previous projects focused on? EXPERIENCE 08 Zillow hosts regular hackathons to encourage innovation and autonomy. When have you created a new product, service, or process with the help of your team? EXPERIENCE 09 Pick an app on your phone and sell it to me. EXPERIENCE 10 This role with Zillow is highly technical. What is your understanding of this position and the responsibilities that come with it? EXPERIENCE 11 The online property listing services industry is highly competitive. How will you help Zillow stay ahead of its competitors? EXPERIENCE 12 Market research is at the heart of what we do at Zillow. How do you approach a project before embarking on it? EXPERIENCE 13 What do you know about Zillow's workplace culture? EXPERIENCE 14 Zillow encourages cross-departmental collaboration. Do you have experience collaborating between developers, designers, and other stakeholders? EXPERIENCE 15 Describe an ongoing issue at your current job that you successfully resolved. EXPERIENCE 16 Zillow operates in an ever-shifting industry. What is the most significant shift you have had to deal with in your career? EXPERIENCE 17 How do you react when dissatisfied with the quality of, or the outcome of, your work? BEHAVIORAL 18 If we chose to hire you, where do you envision your career heading in 12 months from now? CAREER GOALS 19 If offered this role at Zillow, how will you go about building relationships with your new coworkers and supervisors? EXPERIENCE 20 What type of work environment do you require to be the most productive? BEHAVIORAL 21 In your current position, have you taken on tasks which fell outside of your wheelhouse? How did you succeed? EXPERIENCE 22 Zillow is innovating the real estate industry. What does the word 'innovation' mean to you? EXPERIENCE 23 Tell me about a time when you successfully prioritized your tasks and completing a project on schedule. EXPERIENCE 24 What challenges are you looking for in your next position? CAREER GOALS 25 What is your first reaction when you realize you’ve make a mistake? BEHAVIORAL 26 Zillow is always on the lookout for future leaders in our company. What do you see as the most challenging task a manager faces? BEHAVIORAL 27 After you implement a solution to a problem, how do you test the effectiveness of that solution? EXPERIENCE 28 Why should Zillow hire you? BEHAVIORAL 29 If you had half of a million dollars to build your own business, what would you do? CAREER GOALS 30 If you had to give a TED Talk tomorrow, what topic would you choose? BEHAVIORAL
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