State Street·Software Engineer

State Street Software Engineer interview experience

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Plainsboro, NJPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter screening, my process moved fairly quickly into two technical stages.

In the first one, it was essentially a vendor-style assessment focused on core Java and backend fundamentals, with Spring Boot and SQL. I was asked to build a RESTful API using Spring Boot, then implement equals and hashCode for a POJO, and write a SQL query.

Then I moved into a panel round with two interviewers. We started with general Spring Boot questions, and the conversation dug deeper into Kafka. Toward the end, it turned into coding tasks where I had to write two programs: one for parenthesis matching using a stack, and one solving Two Sum. Overall it felt like a steady step-up from

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