Interactive Brokers Software Engineer interview experience

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MumbaiPosted Sep 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied through a college route and then everything ran on a pretty clear schedule: a pre-placement seminar, then an online aptitude stage, followed by a PI test, then a written test, and after that the technical and HR rounds at the office.

The first aptitude section included OOP concepts and covered Java as well as C and C++.

The written test was broader and still very programming-adjacent: it pulled in OOP concepts and Java/C/C++ alongside database and quant topics, plus some program-writing questions. In the technical interview, I went through both basic technical questions and deeper discussion tied to my written work. The HR conversation leaned heavily into areas like OS topics, Java threads and collections, plus some puzzle-style questions.

Overall it felt difficult but organized, and everything moved on time. I didn’t

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