Senior Applications Developer Interview Experience - Pleasanton, California
Process
I was contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn.
A brief phone call with the recruiter was followed by a 45-minute phone interview with the hiring manager. The interview was mostly behavioral, focusing on past experience, with a few questions on Object-Oriented Design (OOD) basics.
I was invited for an in-person interview a couple of weeks later.
There were 3-4 managers, one demo of their IDE, and one technical interview with two members from the development team.
Their OOD is centered around the object model they use in Espresso, which I realized is not entirely industry standard.
Their application stores data as objects, not in a client/server model where data is stored in RDBMS or NoSQL database platforms.
They seem to pull data on demand based on object relationships, whereas a traditional model fetches data from the RDBMS. I felt this makes the object model a bit different.
Their Espresso IDE demo will make this more clear.
Questions
Design Amazon billing invoice.
Lots of behavioral questions, TDD, and Agile process questions.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Workday Senior Applications Developer role in Pleasanton, California.
Success Rate
Workday's interview process for their Senior Applications Developer roles in Pleasanton, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Workday's Senior Applications Developer interview process in Pleasanton, California.
Workday Work Experiences
- 4.0Flexible, Fun, But Cult-likeSenior Applications Developer • Current EmployeePleasanton, California, United StatesAugust 3, 2012Pros: Work flexibility, good pay, and fun.Cons: Noisy working conditions, no private phones. Nice but tough. Too much of a cult environment.
- 3.0Good Balance, Manager IssuesSenior Applications Developer • Current EmployeePleasanton, California, United StatesFebruary 14, 2024Pros: Great health benefits and work-life balance.Cons: Need to pick good managers for some teams, as they lack people skills.
- 4.0Workday is a good opportunitySenior Applications Developer • Former EmployeePleasanton, California, United StatesAugust 28, 2020Pros: Most people are generous with their time to assist others.Cons: Proprietary IDE, team activity overload, and definitely more than 40 hours/week.
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