I applied online. I interviewed at Squarepoint Capital (Montreal, QC) in Nov 2024
Interview
I applied online and completed an initial assessment on HackerRank. The second round was a technical interview featuring a live coding session that lasted an hour. I had a great experience and was asked questions about my previous projects, work experience, Python, Linux, and regular expressions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions covered regular expressions, GREP, Python basics, SQL basics, typed vs. untyped languages, dynamic vs. static typing, and discussions about my projects.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Squarepoint Capital (Montreal, QC) in Mar 2025
Interview
Self-introduction and 15mins questions about the intern experience and projects in the resume, the other is 3 Hackrank live coding. the last one run with a bug and no time to debug
First stage was a live coding on coderpad.
Very friendly member of staff, made me feel at ease.
There were trivia questions around Python then a live coding question about implementing a Python decorator with type hints. Nothing too difficult; maybe they expected perfect answers
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What’s the difference between multiprocessing and multithreading?
Implement a decorator