Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 2 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at FactSet overall takes an average of 10 days.
Common stages of the interview process at FactSet as a Software Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Presentation: 50%
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at FactSet in Apr 2019
Interview
Very smooth and streamlined. Everyone was easy to talk to and very approachable. Had Behavioral interview followed by technical screening. Behavioral was quick, technical screen was an hour long session of partner-style programming and debugging existing code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find bugs in the code and fix them. optimize code where you can. introduce multi threading into the program
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at FactSet (London, England) in Feb 2026
Interview
3 rounds of interviews.
1 behavioural interview, 1 technical interview (leetcode), 1 system design interview
all interviews were online.
Increasing word count to thirty. This is annoying bla bla bla bla bla
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
System Design:
Design google docs with version control.
Standard with 4 rounds including a phone interview and a HR interview. The product demo is the intro, after which a tech and HR rounds occur back to back. Usually takes 3.5 hours after the 1 hour phone interview
I applied through university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at FactSet (Hyderābād) in Dec 2025
Interview
It was a very casual interview. I was told the interview would start at 8:45 AM but it started around 10 AM. The interviewer was very friendly and walked me through my thought process towards solving the given problem. There were two rounds of interviews, purely technical though I did not get shortlisted for the second round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of integers, and an integer k, what is the length of the longest subarray of the same consecutive integers we can get if we can remove any k elements from the array.