Workday interview questions

49 questions31 coding3 system design15 behavioral5 freeUpdated

This is every question in the Workday guide, in one list: 31 coding problems, 3 system designs and 15 behavioral questions, drawn from what candidates report about Workday interviews.

Each row shows the round it comes from and links to the lesson that works through it. 5 are free to read in full. The other 44 are Premium, and here you still see their round, difficulty and topic, so you know what you're walking into.

Workday coding interview questions

31 problems, in the order the guide teaches them. Each lesson gives the full problem, a worked solution and the follow-ups interviewers tend to add.

1Tenant-Scoped Key-Value StoreFreeCodingMediumOOD & Machine Coding
2Minimum Swaps to Sort an ArrayFreeCodingMediumOOD & Machine Coding
3Bracket Validator: First Failing IndexFreeCodingMediumOOD & Machine Coding
4Premium medium problemCodingMediumDesign a Data Structure
5Premium medium problemCodingMediumDesign a Data Structure
6Premium medium problemCodingMediumDesign a Data Structure
7Premium medium problemCodingMediumDesign a Data Structure
8Premium medium problemCodingMediumThe Core Coding Round
9Premium easy problemCodingEasyThe Core Coding Round
10Premium easy problemCodingEasyThe Core Coding Round
11Premium easy problemCodingEasyThe Core Coding Round
12Premium medium problemCodingMediumThe Core Coding Round
13Premium easy problemCodingEasyStrings and Characters
14Premium easy problemCodingEasyStrings and Characters
15Premium easy problemCodingEasyStrings and Characters
16Premium easy problemCodingEasyStrings and Characters
17Premium easy problemCodingEasyStrings and Characters
18Premium easy problemCodingEasyStrings and Characters
19Premium easy problemCodingEasyArrays, Numbers and Recursion
20Premium easy problemCodingEasyArrays, Numbers and Recursion
21Premium easy problemCodingEasyArrays, Numbers and Recursion
22Premium medium problemCodingMediumArrays, Numbers and Recursion
23Premium medium problemCodingMediumArrays, Numbers and Recursion
24Premium hard problemOnsiteHardHarder Onsite Problems
25Premium hard problemOnsiteHardHarder Onsite Problems
26Premium hard problemOnsiteHardHarder Onsite Problems
27Premium medium problemOnsiteMediumHarder Onsite Problems
28Premium medium problemOnsiteMediumHarder Onsite Problems
29Tenant-scoped effective-dated store: isolation and as-of readsFreeSystem designMediumDesign an Enterprise System
30Premium medium problemSystem designMediumDesign a Domain Model
31Premium medium problemSystem designMediumDesign a Movie Booking System

Workday system design interview questions

3 designs, each worked end to end in its own lesson, from requirements to the architecture and its trade-offs.

#Question
1Design an Enterprise SystemFree
2Design a Domain Model (Premium)
3Design a Movie Booking System (Premium)

A lock means the design is named here and its walkthrough is Premium.

Workday behavioral interview questions

15 questions, grouped by what the interviewer is testing. The lesson explains why each one gets asked and what a strong answer covers.

Why Workday, and the culture fit (3)

All 3 are Premium

Ownership and impact (3)

All 3 are Premium

Collaboration and customer-service mindset (3)

All 3 are Premium

Working in a large enterprise codebase (3)

All 3 are Premium

Ambiguity and learning fast (3)

All 3 are Premium

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Premium opens the 44 locked questions on this page, each with the full prompt and a worked answer, and every other lesson in all 100 company guides.

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How many questions are in the Workday interview guide?

49: 31 coding problems, 3 system designs and 15 behavioral questions. The guide was last updated in November 2026.

Which rounds do these Workday interview questions come from?

Of the 31 coding problems, 23 come from the coding rounds, 5 from the onsite and 3 from the system design lessons. The 3 system designs and 15 behavioral questions come from the system design and behavioral rounds. Every row in the list carries its round, so you can start with the one you have booked.

Which Workday interview questions are free?

5 of the 49 are free to read in full, marked Free in the list. The other 44 come with Premium, which also opens all 100 company guides.