Balyasny Asset Management Software Engineer interview experience

The questions were very generic, basically the kind of standard LeetCode problems that felt widely used rather than tailored to the role. That alone didn’t bother me too much, but the way the interviewers behaved definitely did.

In the first coding round, the interviewer was rude—he interrupted frequently and even made an inappropriate joke about my past company. I struggled to get through a full thought because I kept getting cut off, and by the end I didn’t feel like the environment was fair or respectful.

The second interviewer was nicer, and the round went fine, but I still didn’t want