Workday·Backend Engineer

Workday Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

IsraelPosted Feb 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process dragged out longer than it needed to because of interview delays.

It began with a recruiter call, then I moved to a Zoom interview with the team lead.

After that, I did a two-hour coding interview where the task was split into two parts: the first forty minutes and then the remainder. The task itself wasn’t described as hard, but the timing worked against me—the limits were tight enough that it felt more like a race than an evaluation of depth.

I didn’t receive an offer. My reflection was that the delays and time pressure combined made the experience feel unfocused, and it made it harder to showcase how I would’ve solved the work with a more realistic

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