I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PagerDuty (San Francisco, CA) in May 2015
Interview
2 Phone Screens and 9 am to 5pm onsite. Every round is a knockout round.
First phone screen is half manager's talk about the company and team and half coding exercise on an online code editor and compiler. Second screen again bunch of distributed system related questions and coding again on interviewer's choice of shared editor. This would seem like a question answer session. I think no of wrong answers would decide the result.
Onsite is initially very relaxing and picks up some speed in afternoon. Be careful to not make minor mistakes because those matter a lot. Non-coding interviews are more of a discussion but do require white-boarding but again beware of wrong answers in between the discussion. Even just one or two could cause rejection.
Coding interviews are not that hard in terms of difficulty (I found one of those difficult and had some hard time) but again try not to be in pressure and make minor mistakes. Code is compiled and run on a given dataset.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Won't be specific but related to data structures like linked list, tree and sub strings of a string.
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.
