Coding fluency
Implement an LRU cache. Explain your data structures, test capacity one, and walk through an eviction.
What a strong answer demonstrates
Correctness, edge cases, and time / space complexity.
Prepare for Zynga with a focused mix of coding, design, and communication. Start with your job description and confirm the interview loop with your recruiter.
6 Practice picks
3 Interview reports
5 Levels mapped
01 / MAKE YOUR NEXT SESSION COUNT
Your preparation, made concrete.
System design
Design a notification service. Clarify delivery guarantees, model the data, then handle retries and duplicate events.
What a strong answer demonstrates
Clear requirements, a working baseline, and explicit trade-offs.
Behavioral storytelling
Describe a technical decision you changed after receiving feedback. Explain your contribution and the outcome.
What a strong answer demonstrates
Specific actions, honest reflection, and measurable impact.
BEFORE YOU PRACTICE
Ask your recruiter.
Get the details that a generic company guide cannot know.
- Which team and level is this opening for, and what does success look like?
- What rounds, durations, and evaluation criteria should I prepare for?
- Which languages, tools, and AI assistance are permitted?
- Will design focus on frontend, backend, infrastructure, or another specialty?
- Are there accommodations or preparation materials I should request?
Zynga practice problems
Company-linked challenges and related lessons from our library. Not a prediction of your interview.
Challenge
Difficulty 4/10
Validate a BST
Challenge
Difficulty 4/10
Mean Per Level
Challenge
Difficulty 7/10
Design A Least Recently Used (LRU) Cache
Challenge
Difficulty 6/10
Two Stack Queue
Challenge
Difficulty 6/10
Closures and Dependency Injection
Challenge
Difficulty 8/10
The Coin Change Problem
Real interview experiences
3 reports from candidates who interviewed at Zynga.
What people at Zynga say
Reviews originally posted on Glassdoor.
Zynga has many offices across the world and remote working has been in the culture even way before COVID starts. Work location is flexible.
Great benefits. Opportunities to move around the company. Your experience will vary widely depending on which studio you work in. Each game is like their own mini-company.
Benefits are good. Work on some teams is interesting.
Good perks and benefits. Free lunch and dinner. 5 - 25% bonus and equity. Has a start uppy feel. To it.
Zynga prided itself on growing young employees into incredible talent. Employees were evaluated and rewarded on a quarterly basis. Normally, this was done with stock and cash bonuses. Nowadays, there's a more structured system for reviewing employees, where the old days would give bigger reward pools to teams doing well.
Inside the workplace
About Zynga
A day at Zynga