Pagerduty·Software Engineer

Pagerduty Software Engineer interview experience

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Toronto, ONPosted Jul 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a brief conversation with the internal recruiter—why I wanted PagerDuty, what I expected around pay, and what made me happy at work.

Soon after, I had a phone interview with a lead paired with a coding challenge. I could pick any programming language, and the task involved writing something that would work on a provided dataset. It felt like a straightforward algorithm exercise, but the emphasis was still on execution on the data.

A few days later I was pulled into a more hands-on technical round. I had to connect to a remote Linux machine, figure out why a system was running slowly, and then dig further into the environment. The troubleshooting portion took longer than I expected, and the interviewer came across as

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