Very good, step by step explanation of the process of interviews, made me feel comfortable. Office is good and also the environment to work is soothing and also good wfh policy
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Workday (Dublín, Dublín) in Sep 2023
Interview
I had 2 rounds then was dropped off, Depends on the interviewer it feels very different experience. First interviewer was a US guy who has long experience in distributed systems and It was really interesting round. The second round the interviewer joined the company 6 months earlier and had no interest in the interview, indifferent and didn't want to listen to answers. Even finished the interview in 40 minutes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First round had too many questions regarding distributed systems so it's not possible to mention everything here. But mainly details around Apache Hadoop HDFS part and how it's built internally. Some questions around CAP and how it's achieved in HDFS + how it works internally and past experiences. Second interviewer came unprepared and asked me to implement two wrapper methods around HashMap (one to fetch and one to delete) was very useless question which can be solved by a CS student.
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It was very quick and smooth. I had total 5 rounds of interviews. Two of them were behavioral interviews and rest of them were coding interviews. I got a coding test first. Followed by a behavior interview with a manager. Then there was a virtual coding interview. After clearing that, I was called on-site for 2 interviews.