Balyasny Asset Management·Software Engineer

Balyasny Asset Management Software Engineer interview experience

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London, EnglandPosted Oct 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview path started with an HR conversation and then a HackerRank challenge.

After completing that, I went into two technical interviews. The HR round was extremely blunt and emotionally flat in a way that felt jarring compared to how I expected a manager-type conversation to go.

The first technical interview was especially uncomfortable: the interviewer was eating lunch during the interview and came across as rude and unprofessional. On top of that, he didn’t explain the question properly and didn’t give the right context, so I couldn’t find a clean way forward. When I asked him to explain what I needed earlier, he did fill in the missing context, but by then I was

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