Interactive Brokers Software Engineer interview experience

I first spoke with a recruiter, then I got a timed technical test that was essentially an evaluation of speed under a strict clock. It was described as an hour-long assessment and it included several math questions plus one coding challenge; the time limit felt extremely tight, so it turned into a scramble rather than something where I could show careful problem-solving.

After that, the process continued with an additional personality screen and then more rounds of human interviews, but I kept thinking about how much the assessment’s pacing shaped everything. In my case, I didn’t make it to