Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at PagerDuty with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 29% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at PagerDuty overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at PagerDuty as a Senior Software Engineer according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 32%
One on one interview: 23%
Presentation: 14%
Background check: 9%
Skills test: 9%
Personality test: 5%
Group panel interview: 5%
Drug test: 5%
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Started with easy over the phone interviews with a really draining all-day onsite. Onsite questions and bar was much higher than over-the-phone, making the first interviews kind-of wasteful. Wish the load were more spread out, instead of killer onsite
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Pretty heavily concentrated on DB/schema design, and some live-coding for algorithms (counts, maps, permutations)
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PagerDuty (Lisbon, Lisbon District) in Oct 2023
Interview
First interview: Call with HR
Super nice, asked some questions about my actual job and why I want to change
Second interview: Manager
Super nice! Asked questions about my work and how I handled multiple situations
Then I was going to follow up to the technical interview but the job was filled by another person.
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Did you contribute for any technologies chosen for the projects?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PagerDuty in May 2023
Interview
5 rounds. 1 recruiter, 2 behavioral, 1 live coding and 1 system design. Had to prep a design diagram in advance for the system design round. The entire process took almost a month. Thought everything went well and got a positive feedback on all the rounds but at the end they said they were going with someone else. Super weird.
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- Way too many behavioral questions for a tech role, until you get exhausted. - Live coding had to do with creating a simple UI. Nothing complicated. - System design walkthrough on any current/prev project of your choosing.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at PagerDuty (Atlanta, GA) in Feb 2020
Interview
The process started with a standard phone screen from the recruiter. About a week later I had a phone interview with the hiring manager with standard behavioral questions, e.g. regarding working in a team and software developer successes and failures.
The on-site interview was three segments plus lunch. A 1:1 session with the hiring the hiring manager drilling in on more technical discussions regarding SW architecture and process. There was a live coding challenge where you can use any environment you want. There was also a database modeling session given a product idea to implement. The latter two sessions included remote team members dialing in. The interview ended with a brief overview of the company and benefits with the recruiter.
Overall I thought the process was straightforward and fair, though I had wish there was more time to dive into what the engineering teams were actually working on. I also generally got the vibe that interviewers other than the hiring manager were super invested in the interview; I never heard a couple of the folks speak during the sessions.
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What design considerations should you incorporate for a scalable, HA service?