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Zeta SDE-2 Frontend Interview Experience | 2026
This is an interview experience shared by a candidate for Zeta’s SDE-2 Frontend role (Bengaluru).
Well, this one is a proper frontend interview. No puzzle tricks, no fake “design a button” questions. Round 1 itself is a real machine coding task with live API calls, and Round 2 is a rapid-fire fundamentals round that covers more ground in one hour than most companies cover in a day.
The whole thing took about a month, four rounds. From what he told me, Zeta is one of those interviews where you can actually use your day-job skills directly, which is rare.
Interview Process
- Round 1: Machine Coding (~1.5 hours)
- Round 2: Fundamentals Rapid Fire (~1 hour)
- Round 3: JavaScript LLD (~1 hour)
- Round 4: Hiring Manager (~45 minutes)
Round 1: Machine Coding
Duration: ~1.5 hours.
The round opened simply. One problem statement on the screen: fetch TV show characters from an API, show them in a grid, then keep layering features on top.
Sounds easy, right? Here is where people underestimate it, the features keep stacking:
