Graduate Software Engineer 1 - London

Interview Experience:

1. Online Coding Challenge (90 minutes)

   • 2 questions: Valid Parentheses and a string reformatting question (date related).
   • The main idea is to test your knowledge of data structures.
   • 6 CS questions, including debugging code.

2. Within a week, I was invited to Interview 2:

   • 3 x 45-minute interviews:
     • Design question: The main idea is to design the general classes and interactions for an app with data such as hotels and bookings.
     • Coding question: Using the classic high school technique to add two string numbers together.
     • Behavioral and situational question: A general chat asking how you behaved in certain situations.

If you do well in all three, you get the offer.

I had issues with the interviewer's microphone during the coding interview and it took a bit too long to compute the solution. But all good, since I had an offer from J.P. Morgan the day before lol.

They seem to stop hiring around the start of December. The last interview they had was December 3rd.

Hope this helps you all :)

1. Design Question

   • Main idea: Imagine an app with data such as hotels and bookings.
   • Design the general classes and interactions.

2. Coding Question

   • Using the classic high school technique for adding numbers, add two string numbers together.