Balyasny Asset Management Software Engineer interview experience

The first one was behavioral, then I went into a combined system design plus coding round. The last interview was the one that hit the hardest: it focused on difficult computer science topics and covered areas like Java/Python compiler concepts and garbage collection, along with networking and database design.

By the time I reached that third round, I felt clearly less prepared than I had been earlier. The pace and breadth of what they expected made it difficult to settle into a rhythm. I managed to answer some parts, but overall it didn’t feel like a problem I could easily recover from once