I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at PagerDuty (Toronto, ON) in Jun 2016
Interview
Applied online and had a very brief chat with the internal recruiter (why pagerduty, pay, what makes you happy at work). Schedule a phone interview with the lead and a coding challenge. The team lead was mostly talking about the role and mostly asked have you done this and that... The coding challenge required picking any programming language and solving a problem (and make it work on a given data set). The problem was the same that was mentioned here in this forum - find a pair that adds up to a 100 - thanks Glassdoor!
Few days after local HR reached out and scheduled another round. This time I had to install Putty, connect to a remote Linux server and find out why a system is slow. The troubleshooting took a while and the interiviewer seemed to be impatient and not very helpful. Next he asked me to connect to MySql, explore the DB schema and run a few sql queries (count rows that meet certain criteria, perform joins). Finally he asked me to start memcached as a daemon and to receive statistics from that process.
Initial hr call, a hiring manager call and then two technicals, a lot of behavioral questions . Unironically had a great time interviewing, which cannot be said for most companies these days.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at PagerDuty in Oct 2025
Interview
Really quick and easy process. Started with a recruiter screen,, then had a 30 minute call with the hiring manager, then two hour-long technical interviews (live coding challenge (not LeetCode) and system design), and finally a 30-minute call with the senior manager over the whole team. Recruiter reached back out within a day of each interview to schedule the next step. Overall, the whole process took roughly three weeks and was really smooth and enjoyable the whole time.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at PagerDuty (Toronto, ON) in Nov 2024
Interview
Found the interview questions to be a typical experience, however my interviewer joined the interview noticably annoyed. They were quite unfriendly during the process and eager to end the interview. I knew within 5 minutes there would be no callback - there was not.
