Software Engineer Intern Interview Experience - Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
Process
3 rounds Phone screen - Recruiter asks you about resume and deep dives into your previous internship and what you did. Why SIG etc 1 hour technical Come as early as u can to the zoom link. They will give u 10 mins or so to look at the problem beforehand. Then 2 engineers come in, introductions and maybe 1-2 questions abt anything u talked abt (maybe u mentioned a past internship so they might ask a follow up etc). They will go away for 30 whole mins for u to work alone on coding problem. They will still be in call minding their own business. They will come back after 30 mins.. hopefully u passed all their test cases. They will grill u on the code u wrote. Try to understand it at first then ask u maybe for the choice of data structure or code style. Time complexity.
They will then go a little deeper on edge cases and modifications to the problem. The problem is actually very easy usually - its OOP (usually I heard its either a for loop or nested for loop question solution) and then they say ok now "this thing is no longer the same", how would that change the problem etc. They will ask you to improve your already existing algorithm if u can. Question: Design movie database Final (3 sub rounds - 3 hrs total) 1. Technical - Recruiter might say no coding, but this is still coding heavy round - just emphasis on OOP class design. Keep searching glassdoor and you will see many people got asked same question: design grocery checkout system.
They don't care about syntax or language, they want to see you make the classes and methods to design the checkout system. 2. Project review - Recruiter again says that you can prepare a project to demo to engineer, but engineer will just pick whatever they want out of your resume and deep dives on that one project. It could be any project on your resume. 3. Director call - chill call. He just wants to see what you are interested in for projects. He will also deep dive into your previous internship.
Questions
Design movies search like IMDb
Design grocery checkout system with products and receipts etc.
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Susquehanna International Group's interview process for their Software Engineer Intern roles in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
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Susquehanna International Group Work Experiences
- 5.0Great Place to workSoftware Developer • Current EmployeeBala Cynwyd, PennsylvaniaDecember 23, 2025Pros: - Coworkers - Work environment - Work eventsCons: It was 5 days in person.
- 1.0Poor compensation and mundane technology.Software Developer • Former EmployeeBala Cynwyd, PennsylvaniaSeptember 16, 2020Pros: Great work life balance and job security which means you don't need to do much and not worry about getting fired. See more in the cons.Cons: Stay away! Compensation is poor for technology. Get used to 0-3% raises and a bonus that is a pittance. There are no stock awards like other tech firms. Bonuses are a far cry from 100% base that most other HFT firms pay. Even Comcast has been paying better recently. Undergrad hires make 90k + 5k bonus, Grad hires get 120k + 10k bonus and after that small raises. Go to Citadel, Jane Street, D.E. Shaw or Hudson River Trading among a few if you want to be paid well. I haven't seen any ivy league or top tier school hires in tech in a long time. A lot of good people are leaving. Many people who don't pull their weight and are just clipping a paycheck (it is good work life balance, great job security because they never fire anyone in tech). You could be doing the job of n such people but only get paid n% more in recognition for that. Senior managers are busy trying to hire more people who report to them because that is how they make more money. I am glad to have left and should have done it a long time ago, will regret the loss in lifetime earning for a while. I personally know a few people who were contemplating the same. Technology is very mediocre, nothing exciting. The firm operates at a scale where they can make money if the systems keep running. They have a lot of resistance to adopting open source technologies and instead develop poor ripoffs internally. As an example their version control system locks up regularly slowing people down, enough said! Don't come here if you are young and looking to learn exciting technologies and make money.
- 2.0Disorganized companySoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeBala Cynwyd, PennsylvaniaOctober 19, 2010Pros: * Free food (but they make you work 10 hours a day, so it's not really a benefit) * On site gym * Better education seminars than most companies offerCons: * Disorganized and overstaffed with multiple efforts to solve the same task * No communication between teams, no help from others either to keep job security * Often times information is scattered across multiple people/teams, and in the end no one can oversea the whole thing. * Redundant and unnecessarily teams/departments that supposed to leverage efforts of others, but realistically only creates obstacles for others.
