applied to a Workday SWE new grad role about 8 days ago and i've heard nothing. is that normal? i'm not sure if they batch new grads or if i should follow up.
also unclear on what to study. i've been doing leetcode medium stuff but i've seen people mention system design and i genuinely don't know how much system design a new grad should expect. is it light or like full-blown? i'm still in school so my practical system experience is basically zero internships and one capstone.
any workday-specific advice appreciated, i'm kind of in the dark here.
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recruiter_rita
for new grad roles at big enterprise companies, two weeks of silence is completely normal. they batch candidates. if you hit 3 weeks with nothing, one short follow-up email to the recruiter is fine. one.
remote_swe_42
new grad loop at Workday: expect 1-2 coding rounds (medium LC, data structures, maybe a simple design question) and 1 behavioral. full system design is mostly off the table for new grad unless you're going into a team where they explicitly say otherwise. focus on arrays, trees, graphs. nothing exotic.
newgrad_neil
okay that's actually reassuring. trees and graphs i can do. thank you
bootcamp_bri
i went through a similar thing at a large enterprise company last year. the silence was brutal but then a recruiter emailed out of nowhere on day 19. hang in there, the timeline is just different at this scale.