State Street Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I had an online meeting with the team lead that kept coming back to my lived experience and how I’d operated under pressure.

Then I went into a technical interview that was mostly whiteboarding. The problems included algorithm questions like binary search, and there were also SQL questions mixed in alongside Java fundamentals. It felt like they were testing whether I could switch contexts—talking through data structures and algorithms but also grounding it in database knowledge and core engineering concepts.

Across the whole flow, it felt medium in difficulty—challenging enough