It was a great interview process where the company made you feel extremely welcome and ensured extreme transparency with everything. However, in the technical portion they grade you on your ability to ask for help when you are stuck, thus if you do not know the answer they will be more likely to give you an offer if you can get the answer. It can be argued this is unfair since if you are very familiar with how to code and you are simply coding as you would, you won't be rewarded for what you know.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why would you want to do a Software Engineer Internship at Workday?
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I applied online. I interviewed at Workday in Sep 2025
Interview
The first round was behavioral, but with a technical member of staff. They said in the email that it would just be a recruiter, but it was a staff swe. They asked me the typical behavioral questions, then started asking me questions about my resume, REST APIs, and how I showed leadership in my last internship.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain to me REST APIs, what the acronym stands for, and how you can prompt LLM APIs such as OpenAI to get an output and store it in a database.
OA, 1st round behavioral, 2nd round technical that lasted like 1 hour. Pretty difficult interview comparable to some from big tech. Be prepared, do lots of Leetcode for sure. Good luck expect to hear back in 2 weeks or more.
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I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Workday in Oct 2024
Interview
Very simple interview process, asked basic questions about computer science, particulary stuff related to what I put down in my CV. Also talked asked questions about projects I have done.
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