Interactive Brokers Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jul 2013 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had the process set up through a headhunter.

The first real barrier was a timed coding test in a two-hour window that mixed C++ and Java with logic-style problems. After that, about a week later I received a personality index test and cleared it.

Then I moved into two separate interviews with hiring managers. One leaned more toward behavioral questions and some understanding of finance, while the other was more behavioral again but with a technical manager who asked about what kinds of unit testing I knew and whether I worked with SQL. A couple weeks passed before I got a negative response, but what surprised me was that the next step

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