Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Toronto, Canada
Process
Week 1 - Initial call with recruiter for availability, etc.
Week 1 - Second call with Eng. Manager to talk almost about life story, projects you worked on, your successes, challenges, etc.
Week 2 - do a take home coding challenge or do it on site - I chose take-home
Week 3 - on site interview with product manager, White boarding with engineer, code review with engineer, closing remarks with Recruiter
The product manager will talk about a hypothetical scenario to gauge how you will handle a product
The white boarding will ask you to design a system based on a requirement they will have
The code review portion will involve examining the take-home coding challenge - if you did not do take home you would likely write this on site. The review will ask why you did certain things, issues you encountered, and may ask you to make small changes.
Overall, the interview process is very well laid out and organized and not overly complicated in terms of what you are expected to know about algorithms or data structures but how you do the white boarding will play a critical role in how well you understand the importance of these things when it comes to system design.
Questions
Describe a situation where you felt you weren't right at something and how did you handle it.
How do you work with other team members, and how you helped junior developers.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the PagerDuty Senior Software Engineer role in Toronto, Canada.
Success Rate
PagerDuty's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Toronto, Canada is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
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Candidates reported having very good feelings for PagerDuty's Senior Software Engineer interview process in Toronto, Canada.
PagerDuty Work Experiences
- 5.0Great Software Engineering cultureSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeToronto, CanadaMarch 4, 2021Pros: A strong technical reputation, interesting architecture and opportunity to learn a lot. Individual contributors are empathetic and talented. There’s a very strong culture of operating what you build on production. Jen is an amazing CEO and role model to all. Some of the technical stuff we're building on top of we take for granted but are pretty amazing. You'll be oncall for what you build and work on interesting scaling challenges. Engineering leadership at all levels respond to feedback with decisive action. They make sure there's a team who owns each problem, and generally do a good job making tough calls about hiring and firing.Cons: We had distributed engineering teams in mostly two cities before the pandemic, but adapting to fully remote has been hard. We have microservices and a drive for autonomous well-formed teams but it's more tangled than anyone would like. We sometimes have a bias for inaction via committees and councils. This is improving (see managers respond to feedback). We're working on diversity at the senior engineering level.
- 5.0Great CompanySenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeToronto, CanadaOctober 4, 2016Pros: The company offers good pay, good tech, and good leadership.Cons: The company was growing too fast and neglecting some HR problems.
- 5.0Amazing experience so farSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, CaliforniaAugust 12, 2021Pros: - Great work life balance - The best company culture out there. The company strives to maintain this even as we grow rapidly and constantly improve based on feedback - More than 90% of co-workers are kind, supportive and smart. - Managers care about your interests and growth. They are encouraged to do so from upper management - The work is great with a lot of learning opportunities.Cons: Compensation might be a little less than what you can get from some other companies, especially in some expensive COL areas. But it's not too low either. You basically trade some money for all the pros mentioned above.
