Belvedere Trading Software Engineer interview experience

The challenge was split into three questions with increasingly strict time limits: the first was brief, the second was much longer, and the third ran for the longest stretch. The final one hit me hardest because I hadn’t yet taken data structures, so it felt like stepping into deeper CS territory without the background I wanted.

The format was also practical and demanding in how they tested fundamentals. I remember working on multi-part problems and feeling like even if I could reason through them, time was always pressing. In another similar attempt I’d seen through the same general