Factset·Software Engineer

Factset Software Engineer interview experience

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VisakhapatnamPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process was unusually intense and long for the number of rounds I went through—four stages total.

First was an online coding test on HackerRank with three questions and a 90-minute limit. The problems leaned into sliding window, queues, and subset generation using bit manipulation.

Next were two live-coding technical rounds, and the expectation for how to present the solution kept getting stricter. In the first live coding round, I was expected to explain at least the brute-force approach. In the second live coding round, the difficulty increased and I was expected to explain brute force, then a better approach, and finally an optimal approach. The last stage was an HR round that started

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