CME Group·Software Engineer

CME Group Software Engineer interview experience

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Chicago, ILPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was an OA on a coding platform, and while I don’t remember the exact prompts, they weren’t extremely hard.

The proctoring system, though, was a constant annoyance—it made the experience more frustrating than the actual questions. I still passed and then moved into live rounds.

The first live interview felt like another LeetCode-style coding problem, not wildly difficult, but I didn’t land the most optimal solution and still made it through. The second live interview combined system design with behavioral. For system design, I remember being asked to design a food delivery app, and the behavioral part was scenario-based—essentially “what would you do in situations like this?”

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