I applied online. I interviewed at Justworks (New York, NY) in Oct 2025
Interview
I had 2 years of experience going into the interview. First round was a 15 min screening with a senior engineer where you talk about one of your projects. Next was a code signal online assessment where you have to implement a banking system and each question adds complexity. I would say equivalent to a harder leetcode medium or easy leetcode hard. I did not get a perfect score but passed through to the next round which was a behavioral with a staff engineer. Pretty basic. Next was the in person onsite which was a system design question. It was to design a Jira board, and they wanted me to focus on data modeling and api design more so than cap theory or architecture stuff. Next was a debugging exercise. It was a purposefully poorly written employee manager tree script that was supposed to print out who is who's manager. It has confusing structure and variable names and you have to figure out why the test is failing and how to fix it. If you do that fast enough they might ask you to optimize it. Then a behavioral with a product manager and a behavioral with an engineering manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a Jira Board Focus on data modeling and api design before architecture
This interview process was the best I’ve experienced. Everyone was polite and welcoming. The interview questions were fair, however, somethings that were expected in the position was not listed in the desvriotion
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic system design, debugging, project manager collaboration questions
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Justworks (New York, NY)
Interview
The interview experience was positive and well-organized. The interviewer was professional and clearly explained the role, team structure, and expectations. The conversation was informative and provided helpful insight into the company and its interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- They asked me how to design a database for Jira?
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Justworks (New York, NY) in Jan 2026
Interview
First call was with a senior engineer asking HR questions? Code signal assessment afterwards which asked you to do a lot in under 90 mins. Using map of maps, sorting, lots of tedious things. You have to finish each question in order (no skipping around). Did not even have to decency to send an automated rejection email. Just ghosted me after. Don’t waste your time.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Justworks with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 42% positive. To compare, the company-average is 37.2% 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 33 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Justworks overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Justworks as a Software Engineer according to 33 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 24%
Group panel interview: 21%
Skills test: 18%
Personality test: 7%
Presentation: 1%
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