CME Group Software Engineer interview experience

I walked through my resume and talked about my background, then they shifted into something practical: a simple coding question. The whole call felt manageable, and I liked that it stayed grounded in what I’d actually done.

When I got to the coding portion, I didn’t feel like it was meant to trick me—more like a quick check of how I think through a problem. At one point, the video-style tooling connection dropped and the interviewer seemed unsure whether my coding environment was behaving correctly, which made the conversation feel a bit messy and less smooth than it should have been.

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