The overall Interview process was good but the HR team really sucks at their job. When a candidate spends a whole day interviewing with your team and you reject them, you at least have some decency to send a personal email or better a phone call. I have asked for feedback and got nothing from them. The worst part is you get an automated email after spending so much time preparing for the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hacker rank question about airport landing similar to merge intervals and a live coding challenge about getting stock data quotes from a socket.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at PEAK6 (Dallas, TX) in Aug 2022
Interview
1st Interview - was purely behavioral. Scanned through CV and cross verified.
2nd Interview - technical interview. Asked to build NBBO project using Java Socket. Had to use Java Stream API and HashMap.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a Java based application that will capture the TCP stream and get the highest bid and minimum offer between stock exchange categories like NASDAQ, NYSE
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at PEAK6
Interview
HR screen followed by questions from some employees in technology. HR was completely clueless from the start and could never explain the job at even a high level. Seems like Peak 6 is playing the numbers game. Get as many resumes as possible. Present these resumes to the tech team and then let them deal with it. The professionalism was the lowest I have ever encountered. This coupled with the fact that Peak 6 is not even cutting edge in terms of technology and in terms of the business made me not want to continue with the process any further. The reviews from the employees on Glassdoor should have been enough of a red flag for me. But I gave them the benefit of the doubt and guess what, the bad reviews of this place are dead on. Truly a clueless organization. I decided to stay with my current employer who is light years ahead of these people.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Dumb theoretical questions that had no bearing on reality.