Interactive Brokers Software Engineer interview experience

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Hard

Positive

IndiaPosted Aug 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an early qualifier, I ended up doing a sequence where assessments carried a lot of weight before I ever got to deep technical conversation.

The process started with rounds that included both coding and a Personality Index test, and I could tell from the way the pipeline was described that the personality stage eliminated a significant chunk of people.

Once I reached the 1:1 VC interviews, the difficulty increased and I was asked challenging questions that required real implementation experience, especially with data structures and Java internals. The interview itself ran on a live coding platform where my screen was visible and I couldn’t look things up. The interviewer was professional and friendly and gave hints as I worked,

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