Balyasny Asset Management·Software Engineer

Balyasny Asset Management Software Engineer interview experience

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a fairly compact process with three rounds.

First I had a recruiter call that stayed pretty standard and mostly behavioral. After that, I did a technical screen that started with a Fibonacci-sequence style problem, then moved into Python questions, including how decorators work.

The second round was the part that took the most effort: a take-home assignment I had to finish in about 1–2 hours. I built a mini “trade ticker” that loaded initial data from a file, then read tickers and subscriptions from stdin, and handled currency conversion as part of the logic.

Roughly after that, I had a 90-minute discussion with two engineers focused

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