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      Senior Software Engineer Interview Interview

      Oct 16, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Dublin, Dublin
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Workday (Dublin, Dublin) in Oct 2021

      Interview

      I would still encourage anyone to apply to workday but I had a negative experience with the workday recruiter. First was a 30 minute screening interview with the recruiter. Let them know I was only beginning interview prep and would need a bit more time for the technical questions. Secondly an interview with a hiring manager. I was given reassurances this would not be technical but just based on past experience. The questions were not particularly hard eg how to detect/prevent deadlocks but it threw me off and I didn't perform well. I was then offered to interview for a different position. The interview this time with the team manager and was just based on previous experience. I only learnt during the interview that the majority of the team was based in Pleasanton and the daily standups were held at 7pm. The tech stack was also very old compared to the job I actually applied for. 50% of their time was spent coding in their own internal programming language which I deliberately wanted to avoid when applying. At this point I really should have said I wasn't interested anymore. Thirdly there was was a coding exercise to complete online by yourself within 90 minutes. The exercise consisted of finding your way through a maze, represented as a 2d array. You start top left and the exit is bottom right. You can only move down and right. Before the final interview round I got some info from the recruiter on what to expect. The information was very general and didn't give me much to focus on. I asked would there be any questions on system design/architecture. Their answer was there could be and since I had a week to prepare, I might as well just cover everything. I gave my availability for the interview and received times outside of my availability. One interview from 8-9pm. I should have really rescheduled so this is on me but really not a good sign even asking someone to interview at this time. Final round of interviews consisted of 5 interviews. 4 45 minute tech interviews and 1 with the team manager's manager. - API design challenge. Very basic. Given dog resource and expected to know the proper request get/post/put.. - Tech leads conversation X2. Mostly focused on talking about my background and diving into some of the technical aspects. - Coding exercise. Given a number of linked lists which are ordered, merge into one ordered linked list. - Competency/Behavioral based interview with manager. Questions you could expect like how you resolve conflict, what you are looking for with this job, time you inspired others within your team... I was a bit surprised when I didn't receive an offer. The feedback was basically that I didn't do well enough in one interview but performed very well on the others. This was an interview scheduled from 8-9 pm, I brought this up previous to the decision and they said yes this wasn't good and they would take this into account and wouldn't base the decision on this interview alone.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How to detect and prevent deadlocks?
      1 Answer
      5