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Farallon Capital Management Software Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a Farallon Capital Management Software Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated weekly.

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CodingStart here. 11 questions · ~105 min
Longest Substring Without RepeatsMedium
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Find the longest substring with all unique characters using a sliding window.

Hash TablesStringsTwo PointersFarallon Capital Management
Binary Tree Level Order TraversalEasy
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Traverse a binary tree level by level using a queue-based breadth-first search.

QueueTreesFarallon Capital Management
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Execution15 questions · ~143 min
Project Challenges and SolutionsEasy

Describe an embedded project challenge, how you mitigated risk, managed stakeholders, and made trade-offs to deliver.

Trade-offsRisk AssessmentScope ManagementFarallon Capital Management
Prioritize Across Competing Data ProjectsEasy

Explain how you prioritize across multiple concurrent data engineering projects with competing stakeholder needs and limited capacity.

Trade-offsRoadmappingScope ManagementFarallon Capital Management
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Pipelines8 questions · ~76 min
Cloud AI Deployment Pipeline ExperienceMedium

Discuss experience building cloud-based AI pipelines, including orchestration, processing patterns, infrastructure choices, and data quality controls.

InfrastructureToolsQualityFarallon Capital Management
Distributed Computing TradeoffsHard

Tests understanding of distributed systems constraints like consistency, latency, failures, and scaling.

InfrastructureOrchestrationDependenciesFarallon Capital Management
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More topics2 questions · ~19 min
Optimizing Database QueriesMedium

Tests performance tuning skills including indexing, query plans, and data modeling considerations.

JoinsData WranglingAggregationsFarallon Capital Management
SQL and NoSQL ExperienceMedium

Tests breadth of database knowledge and ability to choose appropriate storage technologies.

JoinsData WranglingAggregationsFarallon Capital Management
Hands-on SQL practiceWrite and run real queries in the editor. 3 drills · ~30 min
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