I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Dayforce in Mar 2023
Interview
The interview panel consisted of a senior test engineer and a manager. I'm currently pursuing my master's in CS and have about 20 months of experience in Testing and development. The panel asked me about my experience and had a few follow-up questions on selenium, and cucumber framework (used these technologies in my previous job). This was followed by a short technical component.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A couple of database queries. A db consisting of 3 tables - employee, department, and role. 1. List the full name (first and last) of the employee sorted by alphabetical order based on the last name. 2. List all the departments and the count of employees in each department. - Had to query from both department and employee tables. OOPS based questions - selected Java as my programming language. 1. Two interfaces - Employee containing employee_id and city_id. Location containing city_ID, city_name and cpountry_ID. Input: two lists of employees and locations. Output: need to return a list of all employees working in Canada. 2. Input n integers from a file and find the average and print it.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Dayforce (Toronto, ON) in Mar 2023
Interview
For the first 30 minutes, we had behavioral interview talking about the company and my self, and the other 30 minute was for technical interview. The interviewer was very positive and supportive but unfortunately, I was not prepared for react question, and also in the job description there was only python and C# mentioned.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
react and typescript combined question, seemed like it was not bad but I did not had react skills
Intern - Test Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Dayforce with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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Skills test: 50%
Group panel interview: 50%
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