Interactive Brokers Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

New York, NYPosted Jan 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an initial test that felt like a mix of coding and math.

It included a set of Java questions plus a separate chunk of math questions, and once I cleared it the recruiter called me for background questions. A week later I had a phone interview, and that part honestly stood out as the worst experience I’d had in interviews.

The interviewer came across as very rude and didn’t seem interested in digging into my background or skills. I felt like he was trying to prove something rather than understand my experience. Even though they were considering me for a junior track, the conversation was handled like a senior-level evaluation, which threw me off

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