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Software Engineer I Interview Experience - Chicago, Illinois

October 1, 2014
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied through university. The process took more than 2 months. The HR won't respond to your emails after the completion of interview. It took over 1 month for them to make a decision on my application.

Questions

Most of the questions were very bizarre and they didn't make sense. I spent most of the time during the interview asking clarifying questions. 2/3 of the interviewers seemed to be unprepared. Example: Interviewer: "How would you store data?" Me: "Data?" (he interrupted me before I could complete my sentence) Interviewer: "Yes Data!" Me: "What kind of data?" Interviewer: "Stream of data." Me: "So your question is how to store a stream of data. What is the type of data? Integers, float.. " (he again interrupted me before I could complete my sentence) Interviewer: "Data is basically a combination of bits and bytes" (that does not make sense and neither did it answer my question!) ....... To cut a long story short, after asking clarifying questions for over 10 minutes the interviewer said, "What is the size of an integer...is basically my question". I was totally confused as to why all of a sudden he changed his question.

Coding assignment based on the Java language.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 5 interview experiences for the CME Group Software Engineer I role in Chicago, Illinois.

Success Rate

20%
Pass Rate

CME Group's interview process for their Software Engineer I roles in Chicago, Illinois is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive60%
Neutral20%
Negative20%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for CME Group's Software Engineer I interview process in Chicago, Illinois.