I applied online. I interviewed at Fidessa (New York, NY) in Jun 2018
Interview
I applied online through my university and received a 60 minute Hacker Rank coding challenge the next day. A few days after I submitted the coding challenge, I received a rejection email stating that I would not be progressing to the next round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hacker Rank Questions:
1. , Given the arrival and departure times of the flights, find the minimum number of gates needed at an airport.
2. Given a String of uppercase and lowercase letters (e: AABbCBbc), return the index of the lowercase letter in the last pair or return -1 if there are no pairs (would return 6 for my example). Additionally, the solution must be O(input).
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Fidessa (New York, NY) in Jul 2022
Interview
Bizarre and disrespectful. No coding questions asked, but he did ask me to speak a lot in detail about my project at my last job 2 years ago, down to details in the implementation that I could barely recall.
Interviewers should respect or realize that other companies have NDAs and it's icky to press for super fine-grained technical details, but he kept asking.
He also challenged things my company did and acted like he knew better than the people who actually worked there, and I was caught so off-guard I only realized after the interview how incorrect he was.
For instance, I brought up the technical challenge of loading "50 2-minute videos 1080 p videos at 60 fps" from disk to heap memory." He very confidently told me that we could've just loaded all frames of all~ 50 videos at once into a very big array and that any personal computer which had 32 GB of RAM was "more than enough".
There's a difference between RAM and heap memory, but even assuming I could allocate a 32 GB array in C++ without problems, the *actual* amount of memory required would've been 4 bytes/pixel x (1920×1080) pixels/frame x 60 frame/sec x 60 sec/min x 2 min x 50 videos = 2985.984 GB
(This was just one of a few instances where he was like "maybe you guys should've tried this".)
Also, I just got ghosted with not follow up interview. Was a waste of time, and it's sad they have interviewers who can't do math :(
I applied online. I interviewed at Fidessa in Dec 2019
Interview
I applied online and got interview.
1 hackerank
1 video recording
1 code-pair (currently at this)
round 1: hackerank, you have to use C++ to code. Review array, loop, some C++ functions syntax would be helpful
round 2: video recording. You are given 5min to prepare, 5min to talk. You will need webcam, and record devices. Try to pace your speed.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Fidessa (New York, NY)
Interview
I have received a Hackerrank challenge the next day after I applied. And after a week, i received a sparkhire video interview, and I haven't finished the video interview.
C++ Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Fidessa with 2.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 12% positive. To compare, the company-average is 33.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for C++ Developer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 33 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Fidessa overall takes an average of 15 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Fidessa as a C++ Developer according to 33 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 36%
Phone interview: 21%
One on one interview: 18%
Background check: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Group panel interview: 4%
Other: 4%
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