I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at FactSet (Boston, MA) in Apr 2020
Interview
4 rounds of interviews. 1st round was with a Software Engineer Manager (USA) and BA (USA). 2nd Round was with Engineering director (London) and (3) Engineering manager (USA), last round was with lead talent acquisition specialist in the US that found me through LinkedIn.
1st round was find where they detailed out the job. The application is a very old 10+ years WinForm application written in C# with Microsoft office products integrated into the WinForm application. Part of the role is being a scrum master which all the developers take turns being the scrum master. Also, there is some interaction with the clients when the FactSet consultants can't fix a bug or resolve a customer related issue with the application. Most of the newer exciting web and mobile development is taking place offshore in London, England where they are re-writing the product in Vue.
Sadly, the technical screening was not really thought out well and they relied on 2 Hacker rank questions. I would of really appreciated it if they could of concentrated and put some effort into selling the position and what they were currently doing rather than relying on a computer generated test. There was not a lot of effort or pzazz that went into presenting the position. The job as presented would of been a big step back in time with technology.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Join 2 table and get the date where most of employees worked for a previous employer.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at FactSet (London, England) in Nov 2025
Interview
I had a one-hour introductory call, followed by two technical interviews. Initially HR told me there would be only one technical interview, but they added a second one. After the second technical interview they stopped progressing my application, and I have one sencente feedback . What’s confusing is that during the interview everything was completed, they confirmed all tasks were covered, and the interview even finished a few minutes early. I asked several times if there was anything else they wanted to evaluate, and they said no. So I genuinely don’t understand the reason for the rejection.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
30 min python coding , 30 mins sql, 30 mins design
There were total three rounds and then HR round, third round was supposed to be managerial round, I cleared both two technical rounds and after that they put the process on hold and hired other candidate. when I asked him the reason he simply said they need more experience person
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Question 1
In first round he asked me two coding questions which are on data structure
Very misdirecting. No real conversation, every solution I proposed was problematic. I looked in the stl documentation of std:::list and my up my proposed solution in would have worked. i guess I was supposed to be confrontational and opened up the document in in std::list. Hacker rank kept completing the wrong code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement something, with no written requirements. And every solution was problematic
