I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at PagerDuty (Toronto, ON) in Dec 2019
Interview
Week 1 - Initial call with recruiter for availability, etc.
Week 1 - Second call with Eng. Manager to talk almost about life story, projects you worked on, your successes, challenges, etc.
Week 2 - Do a take home coding challenge or do it on site - I chose take-home
Week 3 - On site interview with Product Manager, White boarding with engineer, Code review with engineer, closing remarks with Recruiter
The product manager will talk about a hypothetical scenario to gauge how you will handle a product
The white boarding will ask you to design a system based on a requirement they will have
The code review portion will involve examining the take-home coding challenge - if you did not do take home you would likely write this on site. The review will ask why you did certain things, issues you encountered, and may ask you to make small changes.
Overall, the interview process is very well laid out and organized and not overly complicated in terms of what you are expected to know about algorithms or data structures but how you do the white boarding will play a critical role in how well you understand the importance of these things when it comes to system design.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a situation where you felt you weren't right at something and how did you handle it.
How do you work with other team members, and how you helped junior developers.
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- 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.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
What design considerations should you incorporate for a scalable, HA service?
