IMC Network Engineer interview experience

The interview felt intense from the start—welcoming enough, but the questions went way beyond surface-level knowledge and dug into modern C++.

After that, I went through additional rounds and the later stages became even more specialized. One of the last parts involved a Python task, and the theme throughout the process was strongly tied to multicast since it’s a key protocol for trading companies. It wasn’t just coding for coding’s sake; I felt like they were testing whether I could reason about behavior in a domain-specific setting.

Even though the overall difficulty was high and I didn’t