Factset Software Engineer interview experience

The first one leaned on basic CS fundamentals and reasoning and felt moderate in difficulty, but the real pressure came in the second round: three coding questions split across easy, medium, and hard. I remember needing to fully solve at least one and partially solve the other two just to get pulled into an interview.

The hard problem hinged on recursion and backtracking, and while I was able to solve it, I still couldn’t articulate the most optimal approach the way they were looking for. It didn’t move forward from there, and that mismatch between solving and explaining the optimal path was