Macquarie Group Backend Engineer interview experience

I had early stages that included aptitude-style questioning and an IQ-like component that took around half an hour, with some of the questions feeling genuinely tricky under the time pressure. After that initial testing, I still moved into an interview format that included an in-person assessment, which felt fine and more straightforward than the timed aptitude portion.

Later, I also experienced how Macquarie’s screening could lean heavily on older-style assessment methods. In my process, numerical, verbal, logical, and reasoning questions were used, and the logic puzzles felt like they’d