Interactive Brokers Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted Oct 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and first got a take-home style assessment.

Once I qualified, I scheduled a pair programming session with the team. During that session, I got introduced to the group and had about 50 minutes to complete a challenge.

They then walked through the solutions with me and asked questions about how I approached the problem. What stood out was that they drilled into specific technical areas like multi-threading and the singleton pattern, and they were very engaged in understanding my reasoning rather than just checking whether my output matched.

The team felt helpful throughout, and when I made mistakes, they corrected me in the moment. I

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