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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Boston, Massachusetts

January 1, 2013
Negative ExperienceGot Offer

Process

(1) In-person interview with a recruiting firm. They go over your resume and ensure you can comb your hair and speak cogent English.

(2) Phone interview with a team engineer. Very basic questions about your resume and experience.

(3) On-site interview. Behavioral questions with a project manager, program manager, and an architect. You are asked to write some primitive code and unit tests for it. You are asked to diagram a simple state machine on the whiteboard. You are asked "what if" questions regarding designing an application architecture.

Also interviewed with another team, with the same format as above, but assigned a coding assignment by email (a command-line Java timer application). You emailed in the code and were then asked to walk through it at the in-person interview and explain how it worked and why you wrote it that way.

Questions

All very easy. The in-person coding question was so trivial I started down a few more complex paths until I realized it really was that trivial.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 7 interview experiences for the Fidelity Investments Senior Software Engineer role in Boston, Massachusetts.

Success Rate

43%
Pass Rate

Fidelity Investments's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Boston, Massachusetts is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive43%
Neutral29%
Negative29%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Fidelity Investments's Senior Software Engineer interview process in Boston, Massachusetts.

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