Wolverine Trading Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Posted Feb 2012 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed on campus in a one-on-one setting, and it centered almost entirely on algorithms.

The interviewer asked several algorithm questions, and while I didn’t keep every exact prompt in my head, the structure was consistent: I was expected to explain how fast the algorithm would run, and I also had to write the algorithm out on paper.

I knew I was supposed to cover both correctness and complexity, but I didn’t do as well as I wanted. The paper-writing part threw me off more than I expected, and I felt like my explanations weren’t as clear or efficient as they needed to be. Overall, it felt like a solid test of fundamentals, but I didn’t manage to show strong execution under that

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