Software Engineer -2 applicants have rated the interview process at FactSet with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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One on one interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
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Asked about smart pointers, OOPs related concepts.. mostly at behavioral level
2 coding qs were asked -
one was to get distinct ele in a vector
second was anagram pairs
Overall it went well. my second coding qs has some comilation issues and i was not given enough time to fix it
HR called and set up the technical interview next day. The interviewer is very calm. He started with the projects i work. Interview went on for 1 hr. Questions on javascript, Entity framework, C#, LINQ etc. Later, he asked me if i have any questions.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Find the average of numbers.
var arr = [3, null, [5, 6, undefined], false, [1, null, [2, [5, 6], 5], undefined]]
What optimizations you take for huge queries. How do you log exceptions that occurs while querying the DB? They create alerts on base of any exceptions. so, knowing this is important.