Interactive Brokers Software Engineer interview experience

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Positive

Greenwich, CTPosted Jan 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I took an online coding test that had a few loop-focused problems plus one SQL-related task.

The next step was an on-site interview that began with a short math test—simple problems I could look up—and then moved into a Java/C++/UML testing component. The Java portion focused on hash maps.

On the C++ side, I worked through a question about scope and memory, where the task was essentially to find an error: a variable behaving as local when it shouldn’t. Overall it felt like the evaluation was tightly aligned to specific language concepts rather than broad system design.

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