Zalando Softwareentwickler interview questions

One of the worst technical interview ever. I was talking with an technical architect, he is really creepy guy. Most of the questions were just stupid like rate your knowledge of technology x from 1 to 10. Or why do you want to work in our company - common guys, you have contacted me on linkedin, I don't want to work in you company :) We see that are you recently working on new place, why you decide to apply for new position? - Common guys, you saw my profile on linkedin - are you stupid or something? No interesting questions. It may be - do you know feature x in technology y or some questions about you personality. Complete waste of my time, I would like coding problems, technology or design questions, but questions from Zalando guys are really below the radar.

Contacted by recruitment agency, the process took 3 weeks. 1. Online test (basic Java, SQL) 2. Onsite technical interview - discussing previous experience, whiteboard coding, logical puzzles. All questions relatively simple. 2 software engineers, nice atmosphere, took about 2 hours 3. Onsite HR interview - 1 hour HR grilling with all the (in)famous "rate yourself from 1 to 10" and then 1 hour chip chat with the manager running IT department. I did not get an offer and their feedback was that: they are not sure that they could meet my expectations in the long run and they can’t provide me the professional development opportunities I wish for... BTW. I only told them that my career plan is to become team/technical lead and I asked if they send their employees to conferences ... I know for a fact that the technical interview went very well ... so be prepared for a tough HR interview. HR chip chat is more important than assessing your skills when picking right people for the software engineer position.