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Workday Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 31 Mar 2024

Workday Software Engineer Interview Experiences

1 interview found

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Job Portal and was interviewed in Mar 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Know your resume and your basics

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Know class diagrams. Very Huge for workday.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just know your resume

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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Oct 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Questions about OOPS includes inheritence, interface, abstract classes, access specifiers
  • Q2. Coding question: given a vector, return a vector where each entry in the resultant vector is the product of the remaining elements in the given vector.
  • Q3. Coding question: given a vector numbers, return the index of the vector which has the longest length palindrome
  • Ans. 

    Return the index of the vector with the longest length palindrome

    • Iterate through each string in the vector

    • Check if the string is a palindrome

    • Track the index of the longest palindrome string

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Oracle Software Engineer interview:
  • oops
  • C++
  • Java
  • Python
  • DSA
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Data structure related question

Round 2 - Technical 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Quesitions related to data structure, cloud
  • Q2. Find the second highest integer
  • Ans. 

    To find the second highest integer in an array, sort the array in descending order and return the second element.

    • Sort the array in descending order

    • Return the second element in the sorted array

    • Handle edge cases like duplicates or small arrays

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Question related to two sum
  • Q4. Some sliding window problems
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. General Behavioral Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare for the basics

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Dec 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain microservices.
  • Q2. OOPS

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - This was a contract-based position, so just 1 round of interviews was conducted.
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Oct 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

It included aptitude, technical and coding questions

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Questions on SQL(Joins)
  • Q2. Questions on arrays, substrings
Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Location preferred
  • Ans. 

    Remote work preferred, open to occasional travel

    • Remote work preferred

    • Open to occasional travel

    • Flexible with location

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Family background
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Basic java fundamentals
  • Q2. Spring boot,sql
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Some technical questions from manager
  • Q2. Some challenges or scenario based questions
Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Salary discussion mostly
  • Q2. Benifts that they offer with TR
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Job Portal and was interviewed in Oct 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Sliding window based question
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Java, JS, SQL based questions
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Reasons to switch , motivation , salary discussion
Interview experience
1
Bad
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
-
Result
No response
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Asked linq question and answered correctly with little modification, still was not impressed
  • Q2. Expections were little high.
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via campus placement at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Raipur and was interviewed in Jul 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

The coding test consists of multiple-choice questions and one medium-hard level coding question.

Round 2 - Technical 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. Given three jugs with different capacities and no measuring tools, how can you measure out a specific amount of water using the jugs you have?
  • Q2. What is the angle between the minute and hour hand of a clock at 3:45?
  • Ans. 

    The angle between the minute and hour hand of a clock at 3:45 is 157.5 degrees.

    • Calculate the angle formed by the hour hand from 12 o'clock position to 3:45 position (135 degrees)

    • Calculate the angle formed by the minute hand from 12 o'clock position to 3:45 position (22.5 degrees)

    • Subtract the smaller angle from the larger angle to get the angle between the two hands (157.5 degrees)

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. What is indexing in Database Management Systems (DBMS)?
  • Ans. 

    Indexing in DBMS is a technique used to improve the performance of queries by allowing faster retrieval of data.

    • Indexes are data structures that store a small portion of the data set in an easily searchable format.

    • They help in speeding up the data retrieval process by reducing the number of disk accesses needed.

    • Indexes can be created on one or more columns of a table to improve the performance of SELECT queries.

    • Example...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. What is the lifecycle of a React component?
  • Ans. 

    The lifecycle of a React component includes mounting, updating, and unmounting phases.

    • Mounting phase: constructor, render, componentDidMount

    • Updating phase: shouldComponentUpdate, render, componentDidUpdate

    • Unmounting phase: componentWillUnmount

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. How you delete entry in mongodb database
  • Ans. 

    To delete an entry in MongoDB database, you can use the deleteOne() or deleteMany() methods.

    • Use deleteOne() method to delete a single document based on a specific condition

    • Use deleteMany() method to delete multiple documents based on a specific condition

    • Make sure to specify the filter criteria to accurately delete the desired entry

  • Answered by AI

Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

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posted on 5 Oct 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is the inheritance?
  • Ans. 

    Inheritance is a mechanism in object-oriented programming where a class inherits properties and behaviors from another class.

    • Allows a class to inherit attributes and methods from another class

    • Promotes code reusability and reduces redundancy

    • Creates a parent-child relationship between classes

    • Derived class can override or extend the functionality of the base class

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What are the types of joins in mysql
  • Ans. 

    Types of joins in MySQL include inner join, left join, right join, and full join.

    • Inner join: Returns rows when there is a match in both tables.

    • Left join: Returns all rows from the left table and the matched rows from the right table.

    • Right join: Returns all rows from the right table and the matched rows from the left table.

    • Full join: Returns rows when there is a match in one of the tables.

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. How to handle multiple api's
  • Ans. 

    Use a centralized API gateway to manage and route requests to multiple APIs efficiently.

    • Implement a centralized API gateway to handle incoming requests and route them to the appropriate API based on the endpoint.

    • Utilize API management tools like Apigee, Kong, or AWS API Gateway to manage and monitor multiple APIs.

    • Consider implementing a caching layer to improve performance and reduce the number of requests to external

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What does strstr function do?
  • Ans. 

    strstr function searches for a substring within a string and returns a pointer to the first occurrence of the substring.

    • Used in C programming language

    • Syntax: char *strstr(const char *haystack, const char *needle)

    • Example: char *str = strstr("hello world", "world")

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Workday Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Workday Software Engineer interview?
Workday interview process usually has 2 rounds. The most common rounds in the Workday interview process are Aptitude Test and Coding Test.
How to prepare for Workday Software Engineer interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Workday. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Workday expect are Agile, Computer science, Machine Learning, Open Source and AWS.

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