Paylocity·Software Engineer

Paylocity Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jul 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I first did the standard HR screen, and then the process moved into something more hands-on.

Instead of a traditional coding assessment, I was given a small web app to build that would become the foundation of the main interview. They mentioned their stack—.NET, Dapper, and React—and it was clear that using those tools would score points.

When it came time for the interview, I explained what I wrote and why I made the implementation choices I did. They also pushed on trade-offs, so I ended up talking through alternatives rather than just describing what I shipped. Overall it felt like the interviewers wanted to see how I reasoned about decisions.

I didn’t end up receiving an offer,

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