FactSet Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Gave them my resume at university career fair and got a phone call to schedule a phone interview with their market data team a week later.

Phone Interview:
The interviewer was a senior software engineer who had been with FactSet with more than 6 years. He asked me to describe some important projects on my resume and then went on to ask basic data structures and C++ related questions, no coding at all only concepts. The interview went well and I got a request for on-site interview at their Norwalk office.

On-site interview:
The on site interview started with a "light" breakfast and demo of their product and a small executive talk. First round was C++ code review (1:1). They gave me 5 pages of poorly written (but compilable) C++ code and asked me to find mistakes. Typical mistakes I found were memory leaks, infinite loops, poorly designed functions, poorly designed class interface etc. The interviewer seemed reasonably happy with my review.

Second round was about design (again 1:1). I was expecting an object oriented game design type question but he picked up a project from my resume and asked me to extend the design to meet certain security requirements. The problem was quite open and I was not sure what he was expecting. But, I thought I did okay in this one.

Then came the data structures and algorithms round (this was 2:1). They asked me to code atoi function and finding lowest common ancestor of tow nodes in a tree. I did the first problem pretty quickly. And presented an algorithm for the second one. But, they wanted a more efficient solution. I was able to come up with few improvements but before I could improve it further to their satisfaction they said the time was over and that I had to call it quits. While leaving the two guys said "good luck" to me and I knew that was a bad sign. I think this round hurt me the most.

Then there was 45 min lunch with another engineer. Casual, "get to know", kind of affair.

Fourth round was 1:1 interview with director of the team. He asked me resume related questions and was basically trying to gauge my attitude/skills , where I would fit in the team etc.

Fifth round was typical HR interview.

All in all, it was a good experience. They paid for all the travel and living expenses and were generally nice/friendly.

Got a thank you email after a week.

Interview Details – Applied through my school's career fair. Got called for an onsite interview. They gave a demo of their product and then I had 5 interviews with 1-2 people. They also took me out to lunch. Overall, it seemed like a very good company for work-life balance. People were nice too. I got an offer within 2 business days.

I have not accepted the position yet but seems like a good company.

Interview Details – Got a telephone interview after college career fair. It a 30 minutes telephone interview. Asked about some background, sample code, linked list and algorithmic questions.

Interview Details – I was asked to come over for an onset interview after an easy phone interview - after meeting them at the college career fair. The interview was set up quickly and the people were really nice throughout the interview. The day started with a code review. The following two interviews consisted of easy algorithm questions and OO design questions. It was a pleasant day.

Interview Details – Through a referral, I was contacted by a recruiter to do an on-site interview in the Chicago office. This consisted of 4 in person interviews and some younger staff members took me out to lunch after. The whole process lasted from about 8:30AM-1:00PM. I was very pleased with the interview process overall, and everybody seemed to be very cordial and accommodating. The interviews themselves seemed to be segmented by "category" - the first was a general interview, second was more sales oriented, third was numbers, excel, financial, and the fourth was strictly personality and who you are outside of work.

I would say recommend to have a pretty solid knowledge base of the financial industry and what's going on right now. Also know about excel because they're likely to ask questions about your familiarity with excel.

Interview Details – Interview process is very fast than one can expect. The whole process from my first phone interview to the date of offer , took one month.

Interview Details – Round robin interview. Some were standard questions, but a few went for shock and awe value to intimidate. Overall not a good experience or reflective of a company I would like to work at.

Interview Details – Talked to them at my career fair and got an interview on campus the next day. Heard back that afternoon and got invited onsite. The recruiter was not too responsive but I eventually scheduled a date. Everyone was nice and they took me out for lunch.

Negotiation Details – I did not negotiate.

Interview Details – On campus interview then got invited to Chicago for final round interview. Everything was paid for and the night before a couple employees took myself and 2 other candidates out to dinner. The next day started with a product demo then three consectutive 1 on 1 interviews with all basic questions about resume/interest in FactSet/behavioral.