MSCI·Software Engineer

MSCI Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Positive

PunePosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an initial recruiter touchpoint, I was asked to complete an online coding assessment on HackerRank.

It was short but still felt like a real filter: two DSA questions plus a SQL query, with the SQL standing out as the trickier part. The time pressure mattered, and I could feel the process was aiming to quickly separate people who could think and implement cleanly.

Once I cleared that, I moved into three rounds total: two technical interviews followed by HR. The first technical round leaned heavily on core computer science topics alongside coding—OOPs, DBMS, and OS came up, and I also solved a DSA-style coding problem. The second technical round dug into my project work much more directly,

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