Nice, smart people
Nice, smart people
Everyone is nice, everyone is smart, [and has an] entrepreneurial attitude.
Lots of engineers, even senior ones, lack outside experience. It's hard to get anything done outside of established boundaries. Lots of inertia around existing tech and a lack of outside perspective makes it hard to point out problems or suggest solutions outside of expectations.
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Senior Software Engineer
There was an initial video conference where the interviewer asked basic questions about common practices used in the technical operation of trading. After that, I had to take a HackerRank test. I was given 7 hours for 3 questions of medium difficult
Senior Software Engineer
Phone screen, take home assignment. On-site interviews: 5 total, 2 technical. Discussed approach to assignment and contrasted performance with clarity. In-memory binary tree, date calculations for leap year, hash tables.
Senior Software Engineer
Applied through Stack Overflow Jobs. Got a call from an HR for 30 minutes, then a HackerRank test. You have 8 hours to solve 3 tasks. After that, I was invited for a Skype call for an hour, and after that, no reply at all.
Senior Software Engineer
AustraliaSeptember 1, 2019There was an initial video conference where the interviewer asked basic questions about common practices used in the technical operation of trading. After that, I had to take a HackerRank test. I was given 7 hours for 3 questions of medium difficult
Senior Software Engineer
United StatesAugust 31, 2020Phone screen, take home assignment. On-site interviews: 5 total, 2 technical. Discussed approach to assignment and contrasted performance with clarity. In-memory binary tree, date calculations for leap year, hash tables.
Senior Software Engineer
JapanMarch 21, 2019Applied through Stack Overflow Jobs. Got a call from an HR for 30 minutes, then a HackerRank test. You have 8 hours to solve 3 tasks. After that, I was invited for a Skype call for an hour, and after that, no reply at all.
