Two Sigma·Software Engineer

Two Sigma Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

New York, NYPosted Nov 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a HackerRank challenge and then moved into a phone screen, followed by an in-person set of interviews.

The format felt familiar—design and coding questions together, and the coding part involved actually implementing the solution. Up to that point I felt okay about my progress, but the experience turned negative because a couple details went off.

One interviewer was clearly not prepared and also didn’t create a productive environment. After discussing my experience for a while, they gave me a problem, pushed for a “better” approach when my answer wasn’t optimal, and then after brainstorming together, I still couldn’t get to a clear demonstration of how it would work. When I asked them for an

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