I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at PIMCO (Vancouver, BC) in Sep 2020
Interview
I met them at a recruiting event and applied through their early application link. First round was a basic OA, then a virtual interview on SparkHire, then 2 back to back interviews (first being technical and second being behavioral).
The OA was basic coding questions (had a basic SQL question), the virtual interview consisted of a few behavioral like questions (like why PIMCO, etc) and a few open ended technical questions (asking what you would do in a certain business situation). The final round questions were fine, not that hard, but I kind of struggled so my interviewers had to help a lot. The behavioral was fine.
- OA
- HireVue (you can only record response once for each question and limited preparation time)
- two rounds of virtual onsite, one technical with an engineer, the other with HR and another engineer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Resume related questions, classes you take at school, teamwork experience
I was sent an online assessment several weeks after applying and was expected to solve three problems within three hours. All questions were all related to stocks and trading, so I thought it was relevant to the company.
I applied online. I interviewed at PIMCO (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2021
Interview
A coding interview followed by an in-person interview. The coding interview was on HackerRank and was hard to debug because it had hidden test cases that one couldn't view. The coding interview covered SQL and Java. It included arrays and dictionaries. The last question was a stock trading scenario and was quite interesting and challenging to solve.