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Devops Engineer Interview Experience - Dublin, Ireland

August 1, 2017
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

In summary, "academics" should not waste their time here.

I was contacted by one of their recruiters based on my sysops background and experience. Over a period of a month, I had four telephone screening interviews/conversations. I was then invited to a series of face-to-face interviews (5 hours -- 6 sub-panels with a total of 8 people, plus an HR person).

The interviewers were nice, and there was nothing particularly difficult with the set of questions; all were very conversational. The range of topics included a recap of my background and experience, project and team management, operations & sys admin, Cloud, DevOps, networking, etc. So far, so good.

After a week, I was contacted with the news that although they considered me to be technically excellent, they were not going to proceed any further because my background was too "academic." I have published papers on system architectures & DevOps and have professionally worked on complex, large-scale distributed computing infrastructures.

Given that Workday was well aware of my "academic" background, I feel they wasted a good chunk of my time that I could have used productively elsewhere. There is also an inference that an "academic" is not capable of adjusting to a commercial environment. Personally, I always considered myself a professional sysadmin and managed my infrastructures accordingly.

Questions

  1. How can you extract the top 10 occurring URLs and their return codes from a log file?

  2. How would you scale this to multiple machines with terabytes of data?

  3. How have you contributed to a project (of your choice)?

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Pass Rate

Workday's interview process for their Devops Engineer roles in Dublin, Ireland is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Negative40%

Candidates reported having negative feelings for Workday's Devops Engineer interview process in Dublin, Ireland.

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