CME Group·Software Engineer

CME Group Software Engineer interview experience

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Belfast, Northern IrelandPosted Apr 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview run started with an HR call that focused on personal details, then moved quickly into a technical conversation with a team lead about my technical background and experience.

After that, I had a programming exercise that took place offline, which was a relief because it made the work feel less about tooling and more about problem solving.

Once I passed that stage, I went to a face-to-face interview at the office. The questioning leaned heavily toward practical technical topics: Linux command knowledge like ls and df, data structures such as hash maps, and algorithm reasoning like iteration versus recursion. We also got into Java details, including final variables, and I ended up doing a whiteboard exercise as part of the onsite.

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