State Street·Software Engineer

State Street Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

Boston, MAPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started with a surprisingly quick technical conversation.

It was under 30 minutes, and it didn’t feel like a LeetCode-style gauntlet—there was no live coding or anything elaborate. The whole thing was pretty chill, and the timeline afterward moved fast, with an offer decision appearing just a couple of days later. Even though I didn’t walk away feeling totally sure about every detail, the light structure made the process feel almost easy.

For me, the other time I interacted with the recruiting side, the interview itself wasn’t the main issue—it was the scheduling and communication. A recruiter reached out, then there was about a week where nothing

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