Interactive Brokers Software Engineer interview experience

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MumbaiPosted Jul 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My selection process felt like a grinding funnel over a few rounds.

First I went through a stage where the focus was J2EE, Java in web contexts, and basic software engineering principles, with an emphasis on writing Java efficiently. After about forty to fifty people attempted it, only a small set got called forward.

For the second round, they handed me a sheet with a bunch of detailed questions—Java along with data structures and databases—around ten to twelve questions that I had to answer thoroughly. It was intense because the expectation was to do well across multiple technical areas, not just one.

If I passed that, the final round came later and it was

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