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Software Development Engineer

Toronto, ON· Summer 2026

No Offer

Georgia Tech · Computer Science

3rd year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 1 past internship

Hard Interview

TechnicalBehavioralVirtual

Interview with 2 engineers for about 50 min. Asked me to describe the architecture of a system I worked on, that was my capstone REST API. Then some behavioral stuff about my biggest failure and conflict with supervisors. And then had me describe my personal brand in five words, weirdest interview question I've ever gotten

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“Tell me about a time you had to ship a feature fast and under pressure”

Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA· Fall 2025

No Offer

University of Texas at Austin · Computer Science

3rd year · 2.5-2.8 GPA · 1 past internship

Hard Interview

TechnicalMultiple rounds

Tree problem during the phone screen that was medium difficulty. the onsite was for an icloud team and they had a system design round about file synchronization across devices. coding was medium LC and the system design round covered storage related architecture

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“Design an e-commerce order fulfillment and tracking system”

Quantitative Trading

New York, NY· Summer 2026

No Offer

University of Waterloo · Mathematics

3rd year · 3.7+ GPA · 2 past internships

Hard Interview

TechnicalMultiple roundsStressful

Big group meeting where they gave an overview of the company and the internship program and then split us into smaller groups for individual interviews. HR plus the manager had behavioral questions. They also made us do this Thomas psychometric test, like 20 minutes of pattern matching and personality stuff

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“What is Brownian motion and what are its key properties”
  2. 2.“Explain what gamma is in options pricing. What does a large gamma position mean?”

Software Engineer

Toronto, ON· Summer 2026

No Offer

Dalhousie University · Computer Science

3rd year · 2.9-3.2 GPA · 1 past internship

Average Interview

Behavioral

OA was standard medium difficulty coding problems and the work simulation was kind of intuitive if you've read about their leadership principles beforehand. the final interview goes deep on LP stuff, wanted to know about a time showing ownership and really wanted a strong specific example. the coding part was fine but having weak LP stories is enough to get rejected even if your technical skills are solid, prep your behavioral stories people it's not optional here lol

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“Given a stream of integers, maintain the running median efficiently”
  2. 2.“Given an array of integers, return the indices of two numbers that add up to a target value”

Consulting Analyst

Vancouver, BC· Summer 2025

No Offer

University of British Columbia · Commerce

3rd year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 4+ past internships

Hard Interview

Case studyBehavioralMultiple rounds

Round 1 with a consultant was fine, got through the culture questions easily. Round 2 with a partner was harder. Case was a retail chain deciding whether to close underperforming stores and the math stacked up and got difficult. Partner also was asking about a time I had to influence someone without authority, weird question but saw it online beforehand thankfully so prep that

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“A Canadian mining company is evaluating the economics of a new site in Northern Ontario”
  2. 2.“Your client is a mid-size grocery chain facing pressure from Walmart and online delivery. What strategy do you recommend?”
  3. 3.“Operations improvement case: a manufacturing plant's output has fallen 10% over the past two quarters”

Software Engineer

New York, NY· Summer 2025

No Offer

Arizona State University · Computer Science

3rd year · 2.9-3.2 GPA · 1 past internship

Average Interview

TechnicalMultiple roundsVirtual

Passed the HackerRank then on Zoom got one question and solved it but missed an edge case with negative numbers. The recorded video screening after felt like a formality but never secured the role.

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“What is an ORM and what are its trade-offs?”
  2. 2.“What's a foreign key constraint and why does it matter?”

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