The first technical round was conducted remotely. My interviewer put a lot of focus on coding abilities, so if you have not written Java for a while it's a good idea to review,
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at FINRA (Rockville, MD) in Dec 2015
Interview
A recruiter contacted me for this job. I applied and went straight into a group panel with two other Software Developers in Test and the director for an interview in December 2015
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked me a question about finding the middle of Java's doubly linked list, finding the middle of Custom Linked List which didn't have the size method. Reversing a String. One SQL question about using Joins to get matching data from Employee and Manager table. Then one problem solving question about handshakes where 2 people was 1 handshake, 3 people was 3 handshakes, 4 people was 6 handshakes, etc....
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at FINRA (Rockville, MD) in Oct 2015
Interview
The questions were were mostly related to my experience and few Junit test questions, I prepared myself based on cracking the code interview book and it didn't help me much though. They focused on my resume and follow up questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Draw the collections framework in java(that is probably I mentioned collections in my resume)
