I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at PagerDuty (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
Recruiter phone screen. Then an emailed homework assignment (write a small app that meets some specs). Then a technical phone screen (collaboratively build on homework during a screen share) + behavioral questions with an engineering manager. Finally, a full-day onsite with mostly technical discussions/problems (and lunch with the team).
I was pleasantly surprised that the focus was not so much on theory as much as seeing you solve practical problems in real time and observing how well you interact with the other engineers. And I was free to use any language/framework I was most comfortable with.
Overall, I found the process very smooth and well organized. The company gave me the impression that they have their act together.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's the most difficult technical problem you've solved?
Initial hr call, a hiring manager call and then two technicals, a lot of behavioral questions . Unironically had a great time interviewing, which cannot be said for most companies these days.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at PagerDuty in Oct 2025
Interview
Really quick and easy process. Started with a recruiter screen,, then had a 30 minute call with the hiring manager, then two hour-long technical interviews (live coding challenge (not LeetCode) and system design), and finally a 30-minute call with the senior manager over the whole team. Recruiter reached back out within a day of each interview to schedule the next step. Overall, the whole process took roughly three weeks and was really smooth and enjoyable the whole time.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at PagerDuty (Toronto, ON) in Nov 2024
Interview
Found the interview questions to be a typical experience, however my interviewer joined the interview noticably annoyed. They were quite unfriendly during the process and eager to end the interview. I knew within 5 minutes there would be no callback - there was not.
