I applied through university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at FactSet (Norwalk, CT) in Feb 2015
Interview
Applied through college. First there will be a technical interview. Interviewer will go over your resume quickly and ask you a technical question. May require pseudo code implementation details over the phone. After this you will be called for an onsite for a full day interview. The day starts with 3 technical rounds. First, is a code review, then a design question. Third is an algorithms round. After that you have HR round followed by Hiring Manager/Director round. Results are informed within a week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical Phone - Design a calculator that parses calculations given in string (use infix to postfix using stacks)
Onsite:
First : Code Review (C++ implementation of Linked List with missing code and or errors. Identify those and suggest improvements)
Second: Design (any) game of your choice. (Use Object Oriented Programming concepts for classes)
Third: Create auto-complete suggestions for user input string. (I used trie)
Fourth: HR -talk about your preferred role and responsibilities
Fifth: Director - Discuss resume and a problem in high level details (no coding)
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 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.
