Applied online. Heard nothing for about 6 weeks until a recruiter emailed me to set up a screening call. Standard questions, explained the process and what to expect from the next step. Screening call with Hiring Manager Senior PM about a week later. Again, if you know the PM role well, these are all straight forward. Behavioural/Situational questions, they ask about any experience you have in PM and why you're interested in it, and why Workday.
Invited to onsite interviews about a month later. 4 interviews, lasting 1 hour each. They ask you to prepare a presentation on a simple technical topic, they specify it. Goal is to see if you can explain a complex concept, in simple terms.
There were about 6 of us onsite interviewing that day, there also mentioned they had more interviews the day after. You'll probably run into the other interviewees in the lobby.
Interviews are casual in tone. A "get to know each other" type situation. Very laid back senior PM's. Ask about your experience, situations where you designed a product, college projects, your strengths, why workday, why PM.
Surprisingly, no whiteboarding or design questions, which I thought was strange for a PM role. Didn't ask you to demonstrate any real practical PM skills, it was just all conversational.
One interview was with the hiring manager and someone off their graduate PM program. This is the presentation interview, you get about 10/15 mins to get through the slides. Very informal, you can do it sitting down. They'll ask questions and play along pretending not to know about the topic, it's up to you to retain clarity and keep it simple when they ask very obvious questions.
There will also be a 'technical' interview that is not at all technical. It'll be with a software engineer, who'll ask you things like, your experience with Unix, maybe about your final year project. Very high level, no coding questions. Basically another conversation to make sure that you're not entirely clueless about tech. Very basic.
Overall it was a pretty painless experience on site. Can be disheartening when you see other interviewees that already know the PM's and interviewers, former interns are hard to compete with.
Afterwards, it got messy. Timelines for when to hear a result were contradicted by the recruiter for weeks. First they were hiring two people, then it got cut down to one after budgeting reviews, there was also doubt as to whether they'd be able to hire anyone at all. It went on for about a month.
After constantly having to follow up because I had an offer from elsewhere with a deadline, I got a call saying I didn't get the PM offer, that it was extremely close but ultimately I was not the first choice. Asked the recruiter to provide feedback, they went through my notes on the phone but couldn't find anything negative or anything to improve on, so apparently I was just very unlucky.
Apart from the disorganized and dragged out ending waiting to hear a result, it was a decent enough process.
