I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at FactSet (Visakhapatnam) in Sep 2025
Interview
1st Round-Coding Test: The test was conducted on Hackerrank platform. Three questions were given with a time limit of 90 mins. Questions related to sliding window, queues, subset generation with bit manipulation were given.
2nd Round-Technical Round 1: The round consisted of Live Coding. Candidates are supposed to explain atleast the brute force approach to the questions asked.
3rd Round-Technical Round 2: The round consisted of Live Coding. Candidates are supposed to explain atleast the brute force, better, optimal approaches to the questions asked. Difficulty level increased compared to the TR1.
4th Round-HR Round: The round started with technical questions related to the CS core subjects and questions based on resume. HR behavioral questions were also asked.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A server has the mechanism of accepting domain requests of the form "www.abc.com", "www.xyz.com". The server cannot process more than 2 requests from the same domain in a 5 sec window. Also the server cannot process more than 5 requests from the same domain in a 30 sec window. A successful request processing should give the message "{status 200: OK}" and insuccessful processing should give the message "{status 429: Too many requests}". Return the processing result messages in an array or a list.
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 college or 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.
