Great building, competitive salary, excellent benefits package, multi-cultural environment.
If you are fresh from college, have no work experience, or would like to find someone to date, an excellent place to work!
Unlikely to get fired for any reason. Free food.
Really high turnover, so you may get a sales job even if you were a programmer.
The technology is ancient (the majority). A lot of programmers are simply maintaining legacy code (Fortran, C) that cannot be retired or converted.
The company also uses a ton of proprietary software, all developed in-house. For example, they've created their own Service-Oriented Architecture (ala WSDL), two home-grown databases, an entire UI framework, and other things.
Give employees breathing room in order to generate ideas.
I was given two LeetCode problems of medium difficulty. I was able to solve the first, and while in the process of solving the second, I was interrupted by the interviewer. He pushed on his solution, questioning if I was taking too long. In the midst
Email exchange to schedule a telephonic round. I needed a laptop to code in HackerRank. There was a guy called Alex, who worked in the MARS team. He explained to me that it was not a quant or maths-related role.
HackerRank + Phone Interview I had a HackerRank code pair which was shared with the interviewer. The interview was quite interactive and friendly.
I was given two LeetCode problems of medium difficulty. I was able to solve the first, and while in the process of solving the second, I was interrupted by the interviewer. He pushed on his solution, questioning if I was taking too long. In the midst
Email exchange to schedule a telephonic round. I needed a laptop to code in HackerRank. There was a guy called Alex, who worked in the MARS team. He explained to me that it was not a quant or maths-related role.
HackerRank + Phone Interview I had a HackerRank code pair which was shared with the interviewer. The interview was quite interactive and friendly.