Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at PagerDuty with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 54% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 13 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at PagerDuty overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at PagerDuty as a Software Engineer according to 13 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 42%
One on one interview: 29%
Presentation: 13%
Skills test: 13%
Group panel interview: 4%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at PagerDuty in Apr 2015
Interview
After a team lead reached out to me, I had a 30-minute discussion with a recruiter about location and salary range. Following this, a call in which the team lead described in more detail the different teams in their engineering department and the ways they work together, and in which I was given a single algorithm problem. It is a pretty standard one, that I was mostly able to recreate from memory.
Unfortunately, I made a small but computationally-costly mistake, which would be easily noticed and rectified in the real world, but less so in a stressful 30-minute interview. Because the rest of the interview had gone so swimmingly, I'm left feeling like they prioritize textbook-problem memorization over anything else I have learned or done in years of work experience. Despite my disagreement on how best to interview programmers, everyone I dealt with was a joy to speak to: intelligent and passionate about the work. I sincerely hope we cross paths in this or another venture someday.
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Question 1
I'd prefer not to say. You would certainly recognize it from sophomore-year algorithms class, if not from an interview-prep book.
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.