Pagerduty·Software Engineer

Pagerduty Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Nov 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews had a couple of shared threads: they involved coding on the spot and required me to build starting from a base program created before the live session.

The setup was basically that I’d create a foundation ahead of time, then during the interview I’d modify or extend it as the specifications changed, and the whole thing included both technical and behavioral framing.

In one difficult run, the process started with behavioral questions and then moved into an onsite coding and program development experience where I had to keep building on what I’d prepared. In another, I got the vibe that expectations were mismatched to what I’d actually been told the role required, so I was caught off guard and performed worse than I normally would—especially

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