QA Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
I applied through an employee referral. The process took two weeks. I interviewed at Workday on February 14th, 2022.
- The first interview was a recruiter call.
- The second round was with the QA Director.
- The third round was with a panel.
The interview lasted about 2.5 hours with a team of three people in 30-minute increments.
All the people I met seemed nice, and they were ones I would enjoy working with. They talked highly about the fun company culture and how much employees are cared for. They seemed very happy with the interview.
I am not sure what they are looking for. I applied seven times in the span of ten years. I am not going to apply again. They have no clarity on what they want. Probably they only hire individuals with extraordinary skills.
Questions
Questions were mostly based on behavioural and situational.
Some technical questions were included.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Workday QA Engineer role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
Workday's interview process for their QA Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Workday's QA Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.
Workday Work Experiences
- 2.0Soft job with low job securityQA Engineer • Former EmployeeDublin, Dublin, IrelandMay 21, 2025Pros: High pay. Very little work to do, and you can get by doing very little. 3-hour lunch breaks. Can swipe in at 10 am and swipe out at 12, and it counts for the day. Managers don't really care about RTO for a lot of employees.Cons: Progression is very slow. It might take you 5 years to go up a level. Managers seem clueless about what employees are up to, especially in QA. No investment in QA. * Using Google Sheets for test cases. Work gets stripped away from you until you've left with very little to do, and then they'll put you on a layoff list. They rate you on the amount of bugs you raise in JIRA, so it's recommended to be on a terrible dev team.
- 5.0Great Culture, No ConsQA Engineer • Current EmployeePleasanton, California, United StatesMarch 24, 2022Pros: The company has a great culture.Cons: I can't think of any.
- 2.0Toxic leadership, multiple managers quittingQA Engineer • Current EmployeePleasanton, California, United StatesSeptember 21, 2022Pros: Previously, there was a good work-life balance. This is currently overshadowed by metrics-driven managers, who are far from the "people managers" we previously had.Cons: Leadership is out of touch, pushing for metrics that don't quantify quality in any way.
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