The process took 2 days. I interviewed at FactSet in Jan 2011
Interview
The interview was straight forward covering standard CS type questions. Just know algorithms, data structures, etc. Sometimes the interviewer tries to over complicate a solution when there is a straightforward simple solution. It seems to come down to how people code and what their best practices are, but not following standard software development techniques and principles.
I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at FactSet in Oct 2010
Interview
They contacted me through a reference. Pnone Interview took like 50mins, asked about my background and my past work. Some basic questions virtual function, specifiers, etc.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at FactSet (Norwalk, CT) in Oct 2010
Interview
Was contacted by recruiter after submitting resume through school's career center. Got a phone interview scheduled a week later, also got asked to send them a code sample. Waiting to hear whether I made it as of this moment.
The company employees are really friendly, at least from what I perceived. One thing that does bother me though is they seem to have a thing for C++ over other languages, even though they list "any OO language" on their job posting.
I was told that my interviewer would ask me some background questions, some questions about my resume and code sample, and some technical questions. When she did call, we only discussed my resume (which took quite a while, actually), and she did not ask anything about the code sample (which was a little disappointing because I had spent a while cleaning it up and packaging it...). Afterwards there were three technical questions.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Write a method that loops through 1-100, and prints "fizz" when the number is a multiple of 3, "buzz" when the number is a multiple of 5, and "fizzbuzz" when the number is a multiple of both 3 and 5.