The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at FINRA (Rockville, MD) in Mar 2012
Interview
The on-site interview was arranged by a IT staffing agency. The staffing agency forwarded my resume and set up the on-site interview. There was no phone interview initially. The interview was a group/panel interview and there were 4-5 people in the room. I was asked some basic questions about SQL and databases, JAVA etc. Then I was asked some brain teasers like how do you swap 2 variables without using a third variable, a question about writing a join SQL query, a series question like there were 3 triangles drawn and on the vertex of each triangle were 3 numbers except on one of the vertices and I had to determine the missing number. Then I was asked about my work experience and the projects I had done in my Grad school. I was also asked some questions about data structures like heaps, stacks and hash maps. Overall the interview went for an hour.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Which data structure is good for memory management stacks or heaps and why?
2. How do you swap 2 variables w/o using a third variable?
Some open ended technical questions and some low level definition type questions. After those it went into a Leetcode Hard question. No behavioral questions.
The job involves working with SharePoint and CRM. It is extremely bizarre to receive a Leetcode Hard question for those skillsets.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What’s the difference between an async method and a synchronous method?
I applied through other source. I interviewed at FINRA
Interview
It was challenging in the technical perspective. You should be very prepared to attend the interview, even if you think that it is going be a basic screening interview, please be prepared to answer the technical questions
I applied online. I interviewed at FINRA (New York, NY) in Oct 2020
Interview
2 to 3 rounds of interview. It was very good. There was like 2 to 3 rounds of interview process. The interview was like coding interview. The team was good. The work was nice.
