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Updated Apr 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer at FactSet
Posted Apr 14, 2012
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3.0
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in New York, NY (took 4+ weeks)
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.
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I did not negotiate.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Engineer at FactSet
Posted Apr 3, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took a day)
Initial interview was 30 minutes on campus. Second interview was with 6 seperate interviews on-site. One demonstration, one code review, two problem solving, one lunch, one with a manager. They don't expect you to know about finance. Some of the programmers don't know much about finance either. Code review is entirely in C++. Final problem solving is more focused on your thinking process and ability to solve the problem rather than code.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at FactSet
Posted Feb 28, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took a day)
Interviewed on campus, invited to their headquarters, but accepted an offer elsewhere.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at FactSet
Posted Feb 24, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Norwalk, CT (took 2 weeks)
First did a initial interview on campus, which consist of 2:1 questionaire about general C/C++ and Data Structure Knowledge.
The technical question was given an array of sentences, reverse all the items in the array while reversing all the sentences in the array.
Simple solution was, while doing in-place swapping of the array, reverse the sentence.
Within the week was invited to in-person interview at their HQ in Norwalk, 3 Technical interviews in the morning, Lunch, then a meeting with a manager/director.
1st interview was fixing a poorly written binary tree implementation, also was "what would this do" to the un-fixed implementation.
2nd Interview was finding mismatch parens in a given string (must open/close in order, can be nested) and then a OOP design question, what kind of object would you make to implement mario world
3rd Interview was doing itoa, quick trivia on data structures.
went out to lunch with 2 employees and chatted for about an hour
4th and final interview was with management, behavioral questions like "what would you do if...." and "where do you see yourself in..."
Mentioning wanting to go to Graduate School broke it for me (considering that all the technical interviews was so easy).
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at FactSet
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Chicago, IL (took 3 weeks)
Met staff during a college career fair. We talked about me, who FactSet was (I had never heard of them), and we talked about how it might play to my interests. I gave them my resume after talking.
Several days later I received an email asking for me to set up a phone interview, which followed a couple days later. The interview was a few simple questions, procedural programming stuff, with no OOP or anything. I got an email later that day to set up an on site interview.
The next week I went in for an interview that lasted approx. 7 hours. It consisted of 5(6?) 2:1 interviews about things like debugging, OOP, design philosophy, etc. Talked about my resume with every group, and got to know each of them. On of the groups took me out to (a nice) lunch and we talked about my interests outside of work. The final interview was with the lead boss, which was about 1/2 an hour, and I was given some tougher problems to solve conceptually.
3 days later, I got an offer.
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Negotiation Details
I was beyond elated to receive an offer as this was my first interview out of college, and the offer seemed very reasonable.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at FactSet
Posted Jan 29, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Norwalk, CT (took 4+ weeks)
First round of 1:1 interview on campus after career fair. Focused on normal Computer Science coursework and mainly C++. Got onsite interview call within 2 days. Scheduled onsite interview after 20 days.
On-site interview consisted of 5 rounds. Starting with breakfast and software presentation by company market analysts at company headquarters. Followed by 5 rounds of interview with 5 different persons. Each round was focused on - code walk-through, OOPs concepts, Algorithm, HR and Lead interview.
People are good and friendly. Did not felt like giving an interview. More of like discussion between interviewer and interviewee.
HR called after 2 days to inform I was selected and gave 15 days to confirm.
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Negotiation Details
Did not negotiate as I liked the work environment and place.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at FactSet
Posted Jan 17, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Norwalk, CT (took 2+ weeks)
I got a mail from one of the recruiters to schedule for a phone interview. The interview went very well and I was asked to immediately schedule for onsite interview date. The onsite interview consisted of 5 2:1 interviews. The rounds were code review, two technical interviews, one HR round and one review session. I enjoyed the interview but dint get an offer. I woud have liked to get into the company.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at FactSet
Posted Dec 10, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Norwalk, CT (took a day)
I got pulled aside by a recruiter was everyone was walking by him. He like my resume and they said they'd give me a phone interview. The phone interview was really easy. Write a loop that prints out some numbers, then program a singly linked list. I passed this part and they flew me out to Norwalk, CT for a day long interview.
This interview started early and it kicked off with a get to know the company. After that, it was several one-on-one sessions. First was a code review session, where I was offered code in C++ or Java, and I had to discuss the bugs. Next were two technical interviews where I had to "code" stuff in C++, data structures and the like. After were some HR interviews, which were more like Q&A about the company.
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Reason for Declining
I took a job offer that was in video games instead, although it paid way less.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at FactSet
Posted Dec 1, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Hyderabad (India) (took 2 days)
The experience of the interview was so cool.
I got a HR call from the company asking if i am interested.He saw my resume Online.
Then i had a phone interview and then they called me to the office and had a written test,
and then the interview with 2 people panel and then one more with another guy.
Now waiting for the results..
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Skills Test, a Group/Panel Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at FactSet
Posted Nov 11, 2011
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3.0
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Norwalk, CT (took 2+ weeks)
I got the interview through college career fair. I initially had 1 round of phone screen. It lasted for around 40 mins, and I was asked basic stuff related to Object Oriented Programming, STL's, Java basics and few complexity questions. Then I was called for On-Site interview. The day started with the product review. I then had 6 rounds of interview. 1st one was code review where I was given a piece of code and I had to find bugs in the code and optimize the design/structure of code. Then I had 2 technical rounds where I was asked a coding question in each of them and several data structure questions rotating around what data structure would you use to implement something, why a particular data structure choice would be better over other, how would you calculate time complexity and space complexities in several scenarios given to me. The 4th interview was with the Director of the team who literally grilled me on a particular project I had in my resume. I was asked how would I optimize the data structures and algorithms used in my project, what would be the time and space complexity in various different scenarios etc. Towards the end of the interview I did manage to come up with some very good optimizations to my project and he look satisfied. Then I had the lunch interview with two senior developers of the team who were taking down notes on my resume as they were asking several questions during lunch. Nothing really technical but conversation regarding various technologies, some projects that I did etc. The final round was with the HR. Next day the HR called me saying they are extending an offer. This company has very good work life balance which is always good. The dress code is casual. And most of their development is in C++. So make sure you are thorough with all the basics of OOPS concepts and STL's.
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Negotiation Details
I tried to negotiate but they did not raise the offer.
Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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