Zoom technical covering Python data manipulation and SQL on market data. In house round after had questions on distributed systems, not expected for a data focused role
Questions Asked
1.“Tell me about a time a business stakeholder pushed back hard on your analysis”
Software Engineer
New York, NY
Winter 2024Accepted
Cornell University · Computer Science
5th year · 3.7+ GPA · 4+ past internships
Hard Interview
TechnicalMultiple roundsIn-Person
Zoom round with an engineer who spent 20 min on my resume before giving me a coding problem on graph traversal. Then in house at the NYC office with three engineers. One was data structures, one was designing a stock alert system with real time data requirements, and the third was an open ended problem solving session where they just gave me a messy problem and let me work through it. Language agnostic throughout, nice since I used Python. The office was impressive.
Questions Asked
1.“Given a 2D grid of 0s and 1s find the largest rectangle of all 1s”
2.“Find the shortest path between two nodes in an unweighted graph using BFS”
3.“Find the first and last position of a target value in a sorted array”
Software Engineer
Summer 2026No Offer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Computer Science
3rd year · 3.7+ GPA · 1 past internship
TechnicalLive codingVirtualMultiple rounds
10 minutes of behavioral and then a technical question on linked list
Data Analyst
New York, NY
Winter 2025Accepted
McGill University · Commerce
3rd year · 2.9-3.2 GPA · 1 past internship
Hard Interview
TechnicalMultiple roundsPre-recorded
25 min cognitive assessment then pre-recorded video then technical phone screen then a brutal 4 hour final stage with 90 min coding and behavioral with senior managers long day.
Questions Asked
1.“What is a type I and type II error? Give a business example of each”