Senior Application Engineer Interview Questions

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• What is continuous integration? • Basic question on ERP? • UML diagram for ordering an item from Amazon • Why Workday • What kind of processes do you follow? and followup questions on explaining those. In short, don't worry, their interview process is very easy. If you pass the tech test - you can be sure. Rest interviews are easy if you are a good story teller.
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Senior Software Applications Engineer

Interviewed at Workday

3.5
Mar 29, 2018

• What is continuous integration? • Basic question on ERP? • UML diagram for ordering an item from Amazon • Why Workday • What kind of processes do you follow? and followup questions on explaining those. In short, don't worry, their interview process is very easy. If you pass the tech test - you can be sure. Rest interviews are easy if you are a good story teller.

1. describe unix boot sequence, scenario bases questions for debugging, this can be in depth and will involve good unix knowledge, so be prepared on unix internals. 2. python/shell scripting, over the phone you may be asked for your approach,in actual f2f round you will asked to code in real time on a whiteboard or a pen and paper. 3. AWS related questions on various services, except for EC2 etc which are common ones. 4. Java core knowledge, thread dump and heap dump analysis and clear knowledge of analysing stack traces for debugging/troubleshooting server issues. 5. scenario based questions on how will you work through a production issue etc. 6. clear understanding of DNS, http, API calls, basic networking concepts. 7. have clear monitoring understanding on the new tools like newrelic, pagerduty, nagios, sitescope etc. 8. if you have chef/puppet then you will assessed on these as well.
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Senior Applications Operations Engineer

Interviewed at Intuit

4.1
Aug 22, 2016

1. describe unix boot sequence, scenario bases questions for debugging, this can be in depth and will involve good unix knowledge, so be prepared on unix internals. 2. python/shell scripting, over the phone you may be asked for your approach,in actual f2f round you will asked to code in real time on a whiteboard or a pen and paper. 3. AWS related questions on various services, except for EC2 etc which are common ones. 4. Java core knowledge, thread dump and heap dump analysis and clear knowledge of analysing stack traces for debugging/troubleshooting server issues. 5. scenario based questions on how will you work through a production issue etc. 6. clear understanding of DNS, http, API calls, basic networking concepts. 7. have clear monitoring understanding on the new tools like newrelic, pagerduty, nagios, sitescope etc. 8. if you have chef/puppet then you will assessed on these as well.

Priority Queue DSA, Java concepts like priority queue, difference between put and patch, arraylist linkedlist difference , their structural differences etc... They were lowkey obsessed with Priority Queue. Gave code snippets and asked me to tell the output. Dictionary, Stack questions were asked in the last round.
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Senior Application Engineer

Interviewed at Oracle

3.5
Nov 1, 2025

Priority Queue DSA, Java concepts like priority queue, difference between put and patch, arraylist linkedlist difference , their structural differences etc... They were lowkey obsessed with Priority Queue. Gave code snippets and asked me to tell the output. Dictionary, Stack questions were asked in the last round.

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