Intercontinental Exchange·Software Engineer

Intercontinental Exchange Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted May 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was a recruiter-driven flow that didn’t feel very focused on engineering.

I applied through the company site and got timely communication, then landed in a HireView round that was less about deep technical work and more essay-based. After that, I was expecting a more advanced technical conversation on a later call, but the tone threw me off.

During the phone stage, I felt like the interviewers were looking for the exact answers they already had in mind rather than trying to understand my reasoning. Even when I believed I answered correctly with my best judgment, the feedback felt narrowly constrained—like multiple reasonable approaches didn’t matter if they didn’t

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