Workday
Builds cloud applications for human resources, payroll, finance and planning used by large organisations.
Pleasanton, California, United States
5,000 and up
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WebsiteHow they hire
Based on candidate accounts only: four to five rounds over roughly two to four weeks, with a take-home mostly reported for senior and staff levels. Workday publishes its own candidate guide, which is worth reading before the loop.
- 1
Recruiter screen, about 30 minutes
UnverifiedRecruiter screen30 minutesRemoteA phone call about background, motivation and team fit.
- 2
Technical phone screen, about 60 minutes
UnverifiedLive coding1 hoursRemoteA medium difficulty coding or object oriented design problem in a shared coding environment.
CodingOO design - 3
Take-home assignment (senior and staff roles)
UnverifiedTake-home assignmentRemoteAn asynchronous task of several hours covering API design, testing and documentation.
API designTesting - 4
Virtual onsite
UnverifiedPanel interviewRemoteSeveral rounds covering algorithms, object oriented design, system design and a behavioural conversation.
AlgorithmsOO designSystem designBehavioural
What comes up
Recurring themes from candidate accounts, not a question bank. Nobody is served by leaked question lists, least of all you in the interview.
Maintainable object oriented design
UnverifiedExtensible designs with clear separation of concerns are valued over clever one-off solutions.
Enterprise SaaS system design
UnverifiedCapacity planning and fault tolerance for multi-customer business software.
Behavioural and values
UnverifiedTeam dynamics, deadline management and alignment with company values.
Worth reading before you apply
From the Sefism resource library, matched to the rounds above.
A structured learning path through coding interview preparation that brings together data structures and algorithms fundamentals, recursion and the pattern-based approach to coding questions in one order. It totals 77 chapters and 1,054 lessons, with quizzes, flashcards and a certificate. Use it when you have plenty of material but no clear plan for what to study first.
- Job search
- DSA
- Career
A bundle of five company-specific question courses covering the problems most often reported from Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Oracle coding rounds, each split into easy, medium and hard sets with worked solutions. It suits candidates who already know the core patterns and have a loop booked at one of these companies, and want to rehearse on the questions those interviewers are known to ask.
- Job search
- DSA
- Career
A learning path that bundles five courses into one sequence for system design preparation: System Design Fundamentals, Grokking the System Design Interview, Advanced System Design Interview Volume II, Grokking Microservices Design Patterns and Grokking Design Patterns for Engineers and Managers. Together they add up to 76 chapters and 666 lessons. It suits engineers who want a complete, ordered curriculum instead of assembling one from scattered posts.
- System design
- Job search
- Career
The second volume of Grokking the System Design Interview, aimed at senior and staff (L5/L6) design rounds. It works through harder case studies such as a payment system, flash sale, notification service, unique ID generator, Gmail, Reddit, Google Calendar and a code judging system, then goes beneath them with patterns like quorum, write-ahead logs and vector clocks and deep dives into Dynamo, Cassandra, Kafka, Chubby, HDFS, GFS and BigTable.
- System design
- Backend
- Job search
An O'Reilly book from 2020 by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck and Hyrum Wright on how Google keeps an enormous codebase healthy over time: team culture, code review, documentation, testing at scale, deprecation, dependency management, large-scale changes and continuous delivery. The full text is free to read online. Most rewarding after a year or two of professional work, when the problems it describes start to look familiar.
- Career
- Programming
- Testing
- Leadership
A practical book for engineers in their first job, written by two experienced engineering leaders. It covers what university rarely teaches: working in a large codebase, writing operable code, testing, code review, delivery, going on-call, agile planning and working with your manager. Read it in your first months and you will recognise most of what happens around you.
- Career
- Programming
- Testing
What it pays
Nothing collected for this company yet, and nothing worth guessing at. A made-up range is worse than no range because people negotiate against it.
Universities they recruit from
No sourced university links yet. A campus drive, a career fair appearance or an internship partnership is what puts a university here.
How to actually get seen
Practise explaining why a design will stay maintainable as it grows, since clear reasoning about structure is reported to matter as much as a working answer.
Sources
- Workday websiteread 2026-09-22
- TechPrep: Workday interview processread 2026-09-22
Whole profile last checked 2026-09-22.
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