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Software Engineer Interview Experience

January 7, 2016
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had a phone interview with one of their developers. Then they invited me for a full day on-site interview at their New York office.

I spoke with four developers and one manager (my guess) in total. The interviews were structured in a usual manner. They ask you to describe your experience and skills, then ask technical questions that may include coding, and then you can ask them questions about their job and the company.

Coding is done on a computer that they make available for the purpose of the interview, which is pretty neat because I can type faster than write on a whiteboard and I could actually compile my code and test it. There was a lunch interview during which we talked about various technologies that the company is using.

Overall, I had a positive experience. The thing that made it negative is that during the interview process, they made me think they were looking for a system-level developer. But at the end, the last guy asked me if I'd be willing to throw away my system-level experience and do everything in Java. I said no, and they told me they were not looking for a person matching my skill set.

Questions

Write code to process multiple interleaving streams of data (from a text file) and output statistics on each stream.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 156 interview experiences for the Two Sigma Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

12%
Pass Rate

Two Sigma's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive43%
Neutral25%
Negative32%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Two Sigma's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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