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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      14 Oct 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Virts Corner, VA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Workday (Virts Corner, VA) in Sept 2021

      Interview

      Applied through LinkedIn and the recruiter and hiring manager were really nice. I wish I could write the same about the technical interviewer. Recruiter - Phone call, explained the process. She was very senior and really nice throughout the interview process. Hiring (Tech) Manager - Discussion about the team requirement, asked a few tech questions if I fit in with the requirements and there were few behavioral questions too. Tech HackerRank - Out of the 45 mins, the interviewer asked technical questions for 20-25 mins and allowed only 15-20 mins for the Hackerrank questions. He did not understand the solutions I provided and was just waiting for the program to not run. I shared the answers with a few of my friends and they said you had the most optimal answers for the question. I wished he had shared my answers with his colleague or another member of his team. The only thing I missed was a line (i++;j++;) and I wished I was provided a minute more to verify. My bad luck but no regrets on missing out. The overall process was good except for the last interviewer who I wish could be trained how to conduct technical interviews. Feedback to Workday - I suggest training some of the software developers on how to conduct technical interviews. Feedback to the potential candidate - Please request the interviewer to start the hacker rank test early as the time scheduled is only 45 minutes and if you get the interviewer I got then you will only get 15 minutes to solve the question.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Hiring Manager -Position requirement matching with skills + Few Tech + Behavioral question HackerRank Test
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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      16 May 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Toronto, ON
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Workday (Toronto, ON) in May 2026

      Interview

      I applied online for an MLOps position in Canada, got a recruiter call and scheduled for a HM round who is in Toronto. But right before the interview HM round was cancelled and I have been ghosted.

      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      17 Aug 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Dublin, Dublin
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Workday (Dublin, Dublin)

      Interview

      1. Team manager interviews about your profile and behaviour. 2. OOD principles, high level Python programming knowledge 3. Algorithmic thinking in Agentic App development, how CI/CD works and the challenges

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Went through your work experienced projects to figure out these tech challenges
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      Workday response
      10mo
      Thank you for sharing your interview experience with our team, we truly appreciate your insights. Wish you all the best in your future endeavors.

      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      7 Apr 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Boulder, CO
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Workday (Boulder, CO) in Mar 2023

      Interview

      Interview process was fairly quick. I had an intro HM interview and then a quick succession of interviews for the final round. There was a great deal of scheduling confusion around the interviews, and ironically for a company that sells an HR product, their ATS/scheduling system was very cumbersome.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      There was a question with some python code that processed data and I was asked to refactor it.
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