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Software Development Engineer Interview Experience - Pleasanton, California

September 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had a preliminary interview at my college. During this interview, I was asked a question about how to find two numbers that summed up to an input number given an unsorted array of numbers. After passing that, I got to spend some time talking to the interviewer about the company.

I later received a final follow-up interview onsite. I flew out to their location and spent about 8 hours there in total. This time was spent being introduced to the company, eating, and interviewing.

The interview portion was 4 hours long, with each hour allocated to a different interviewer. There were two technical interviews and two behavioral interviews.

Questions

In the two technical interviews, totaling two hours (one hour each), I was asked:

  • What is a semaphore, and inheritance in JavaScript?
  • How to find the indices of two numbers that sum to a certain number in an ordered array.
  • How to find cycles in a graph.
  • Determine if two strings are anagrams of each other.
  • Compare linked lists, arrays, vectors, and binary trees in space and time complexity, and discuss how they are stored differently in memory, along with their pros and cons.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 5 interview experiences for the Workday Software Development Engineer role in Pleasanton, California.

Success Rate

40%
Pass Rate

Workday's interview process for their Software Development Engineer roles in Pleasanton, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Workday's Software Development Engineer interview process in Pleasanton, California.

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