Pagerduty·Software Engineer

Pagerduty Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Jul 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter reached out about a developer role on one of their teams, I quickly got pulled into a short, tightly scheduled process.

I responded, then had an HR-style introductory interview, followed by a live call that split the time between a hiring manager conversation and a coding challenge.

The vibe was that the technical side leaned heavily toward a HackerRank-like quiz format rather than evaluating how I’d actually worked through problems in real projects. The recruiter and manager time felt mostly like context and standard screening, and once the clock hit the coding portion, it became very much about passing the problem within the constraints of the interview.

By the end, I didn’t get an offer. I was left

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