I applied online. I interviewed at FactSet (London, England) in Feb 2020
Interview
Applied 2 months ago, received email to have a phone interview. Interview was 40 mins. Phone interview was with 2 software engineers, not really friendly people. Did not enjoy the interview at all, was very difficult and interviewers didn't make the process enjoyable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
-Tell us about factset
-pass by value vs pass by reference
-recursive vs iterative
-scopes-public, private, protected
-4 concepts of OOP
-one tiny question on your project
-they asked a lot of follow up questions to what you say
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.
