Arcesium Software Engineer interview experience

I was thrown into what felt like an aptitude-and-coding gauntlet: quantitative and C++ questions alongside two coding tasks. What really stood out was the negative marking and how my score depended on correct answers relative to the number of questions I attempted, so guessing was risky.

A week or so later, I went into a sequence of three technical interviews. The first one pulled from my projects and then swung into data structures and algorithms, plus DBMS concepts—questions that basically asked me to design efficient database setups and reason through SQL for scenarios like stock exchange