I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at D. E. Shaw India
Interview
Interview process was good, the questions were more of DSA and you skills that you put in the resume. It was 4 rounds, online test, 1 technical, 1 hr and again technical
Positive experience
Difficult interview
Application
I interviewed at D. E. Shaw India (Hyderābād)
Interview
They only care about data structures and algorithms, you should be able to solve leetcode MEDIUM - HARD questions, and be very good at Dynamic Programming if you want to get selected. Also solve all the puzzles from interview bit, they pick puzzles directly from that website
I applied through university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at D. E. Shaw India (Bengaluru) in Jul 2025
Interview
DE Shaw had come in for campus placements to our college.
Round 1- Coding, core CSE questions, and Aptitude
Round 2 - Technical Interview
Round 3- Technical interview, based on projects
Round 4- General HR
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round one had two coding questions, one was based on hashmaps and matrices (30 minutes), and the other was about combinations (20 minutes). Both were not too difficult, but the time constraint was a problem. They were scenario based questions. There also were technical aptitude questions and quants, about 25 of them in total. Since they had negative marking, I did not attend a few questions, and was able to pass 3 test cases in the 20 minute question, and was able to complete the other question.
Got selected to the next round, which was the technical interview.
Questions were: Boundary traversal of a tree, Kth last node in a Linked list, Searching in a sorted, rotated array, heaps, and a bit about my projects on my resume. Didn't do well in this round because I panicked. But it was average overall.
They expect you to know a lot beyond your curriculum.