I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Veeva Systems (Boston, MA) in Nov 2020
Interview
Veeva is aggressively expanding in Boston, so they reached out to me a number of times. I finally responded and set up a chat with an internal recruiter.
Afterwards, I had a 3 way video call with the recruiter and the hiring manager, talking about qualifications and asking questions. This was followed up by an individual call with the HM to chat technical background. I then was directed to a different hiring manager for a greenfield product. At the time, I would've been the 3rd or 4th individual on this team. Had a general, nontechnical experiences-focused chat, with a very brief verbal technical question about a line of code.
This was followed by a behavioral call with Steve Harper, the director for the Boston build-out. He had been at Veeva for multiple years, the longest of anyone I spoke with thus far (the others were sub-1-year). Chatted about career goals and talked about the company.
The offer was somewhat competitive at 150k TC with stock options available for purchase. I was surprised at the lack of extensive technical screening, though pleased at the simplicity of the process. I turned the offer down due to timing of the start date, remote-work incompatibility, higher TC expectations, and to move forward with other opportunities.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mostly behavioral and background experience. Very brief verbal technical quizzing to get at my thought process.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Veeva Systems (Toronto, ON) in May 2026
Interview
Everyone I talked to in the process seemed very genuine and down to earth, so that part was good. The process was a bit long and specific to Java so I had to relearn that after several years. The coding question during the onsite was an algorithm I learned in undergrad, and had never touched again, so I don’t think it gave great signal. It was either you studied that specific algorithm or you didn’t, and you couldn’t brute-force it. I did not enjoy that. The system design problem was also strange. It started out coding a toy algorithm for a specific request assignment problem, and then about designing a real-world algorithm for the actual problem. I also don’t know what signal they were trying to get out of that. I was expecting a standard architecture design problem, not that curveball. I don’t know how to rate the interview difficulty. It was just strange. I came away expecting a rejection and received one about a week later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
“System design”: write code to efficiently assign requests to “workers”. Then create an algorithm that would do this in real life.
I applied online. I interviewed at Veeva Systems (London, England) in Jan 2026
Interview
First round is the hiring manager round.
Second round is the technical coding round, asked to build a basic UI component.
Questions were vague but easy. They didn’t seem very interested, which makes me think if they were actually looking to hire anyone!
had a first call with recruiter and he says his feedback is super positive but haven't get any follow up after that.
was asked about my working experience, salary expectation and a couple of basic technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
your working experience for last couple of years
some basic technical questions