Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at FactSet with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 79% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 110 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at FactSet overall takes an average of 9 days.
Common stages of the interview process at FactSet as a Software Engineer according to 110 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 28%
Presentation: 17%
Skills test: 15%
Group panel interview: 9%
Personality test: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Phone interview: 6%
Other: 5%
Background check: 4%
Drug test: 2%
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First interview was a technical coding interview. You log onto a site where the interviewer and you are seeing the same code. You will be on a phone call with the interviewer while you are solving the problem. You can code in whatever you are proficient in.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Solve a coding challenge similar to the "ice cream parlor" problem.
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.
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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.