Balyasny Asset Management·Software Engineer

Balyasny Asset Management Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

New York, NYPosted Jan 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The hardest part of my process was a take-home style technical test delivered through access to a virtual machine that mimicked the Balyasny work environment, except many things were intentionally broken.

I was asked to fix issues and add implementations, which sounded like a realistic engineering exercise.

In practice, it became a lot harder than the timebox suggested. There were too many things to handle in just 45 minutes, and the tasks were also linear in a way that blocked progress—you couldn’t move on to actual programming until the Docker container worked. The container itself was broken in a non-trivial way, and it wasn’t obvious how the overall build/run flow was supposed to work without deeper context.

I could use the web, but they required that I do it from inside the VM, which

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