Veeva Systems

Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Diego, California

April 1, 2019

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

There were 3 rounds in total, and the on-site portion was particularly hard.

I suspect the interviewer failed me on that round on purpose.

There was one question about system design where I thought I gave a reasonable answer, but it still didn't work for them.

Questions

How to design a scalable cloud data storage and distribution system that serves more than 20,000 QPS.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Veeva Systems Software Engineer role in San Diego, California.

Success Rate

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Pass Rate

Veeva Systems's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Diego, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Negative100%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Veeva Systems's Software Engineer interview process in San Diego, California.

Veeva Systems Work Experiences

Good in the past, but increasingly difficult

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pleasanton, California, United States

September 28, 2015

Pros: Great new building. Technically challenging work.

Cons: Ageism has unfortunately become a problem. An amazing new building pumped up some egos. A lot of very aggressive, over-ambitious types. Work-life balance is touted on the website but left in the dust by middle managers. It's more difficult to move into different departments. VP and Director level managers increasingly want only genius-level people from top schools.

Good in the past, but increasingly difficult

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pleasanton, California, United States

September 28, 2015

Pros: Great new building. Technically challenging work.

Cons: Ageism has unfortunately become a problem. An amazing new building pumped up some egos. A lot of very aggressive, over-ambitious types. Work-life balance is touted on the website but left in the dust by middle managers. It's more difficult to move into different departments. VP and Director level managers increasingly want only genius-level people from top schools.

Amazing opportunity for learning

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

February 15, 2022

Pros: Good pay, good people, meaningful work.

Cons: None that I can think of

Amazing opportunity for learning

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

February 15, 2022

Pros: Good pay, good people, meaningful work.

Cons: None that I can think of

Tough but Interesting

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pleasanton, California, United States

Pros: I worked at Veeva Systems for 3 years. Pros of working here, sorted by most important to me: * My coworkers were very sharp. * The lunch meals were amazing and vegetarian-friendly. * The location was ideal (only a 20-minute commute on the scenic 680).

Cons: The tech stack was "enterprisey" and a lot of the work was not that interesting, at least for the first 4 or so months while I was getting acquainted with the codebase. Things did get better as I begun to understand and appreciate the business logic, but always, the work was very demanding. Also, I felt I was slightly underpaid (then again, the stock did very well).

Tough but Interesting

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pleasanton, California, United States

Pros: I worked at Veeva Systems for 3 years. Pros of working here, sorted by most important to me: * My coworkers were very sharp. * The lunch meals were amazing and vegetarian-friendly. * The location was ideal (only a 20-minute commute on the scenic 680).

Cons: The tech stack was "enterprisey" and a lot of the work was not that interesting, at least for the first 4 or so months while I was getting acquainted with the codebase. Things did get better as I begun to understand and appreciate the business logic, but always, the work was very demanding. Also, I felt I was slightly underpaid (then again, the stock did very well).

Good in the past, but increasingly difficult

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pleasanton, California, United States

September 28, 2015

Pros: Great new building. Technically challenging work.

Cons: Ageism has unfortunately become a problem. An amazing new building pumped up some egos. A lot of very aggressive, over-ambitious types. Work-life balance is touted on the website but left in the dust by middle managers. It's more difficult to move into different departments. VP and Director level managers increasingly want only genius-level people from top schools.

2.0
Good in the past, but increasingly difficult
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Pleasanton, California, United States
September 28, 2015
Pros: Great new building. Technically challenging work.
Cons: Ageism has unfortunately become a problem. An amazing new building pumped up some egos. A lot of very aggressive, over-ambitious types. Work-life balance is touted on the website but left in the dust by middle managers. It's more difficult to move into different departments. VP and Director level managers increasingly want only genius-level people from top schools.

Amazing opportunity for learning

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

February 15, 2022

Pros: Good pay, good people, meaningful work.

Cons: None that I can think of

5.0
Amazing opportunity for learning
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
February 15, 2022
Pros: Good pay, good people, meaningful work.
Cons: None that I can think of

Tough but Interesting

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pleasanton, California, United States

Pros: I worked at Veeva Systems for 3 years. Pros of working here, sorted by most important to me: * My coworkers were very sharp. * The lunch meals were amazing and vegetarian-friendly. * The location was ideal (only a 20-minute commute on the scenic 680).

Cons: The tech stack was "enterprisey" and a lot of the work was not that interesting, at least for the first 4 or so months while I was getting acquainted with the codebase. Things did get better as I begun to understand and appreciate the business logic, but always, the work was very demanding. Also, I felt I was slightly underpaid (then again, the stock did very well).

4.0
Tough but Interesting
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Pleasanton, California, United States
July 8, 2020
Pros: I worked at Veeva Systems for 3 years. Pros of working here, sorted by most important to me: * My coworkers were very sharp. * The lunch meals were amazing and vegetarian-friendly. * The location was ideal (only a 20-minute commute on the scenic 680).
Cons: The tech stack was "enterprisey" and a lot of the work was not that interesting, at least for the first 4 or so months while I was getting acquainted with the codebase. Things did get better as I begun to understand and appreciate the business logic, but always, the work was very demanding. Also, I felt I was slightly underpaid (then again, the stock did very well).

Veeva Systems Interview Questions

Group Anagrams

Given a list of words, group together all the anagrams. Anagrams are words that contain the same letters rearranged.

Generate Parentheses

Given a number 'n', generate all possible well-formed (balanced) parentheses strings of length 2*n. For instance, if n=3, you need to create all valid combinations like '((()))', '(()())', etc.

RecursionStrings

Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

Find the length of the longest substring within a given string that contains no repeating characters. The substring must be contiguous.

StringsTwo PointersSliding Windows

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