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FINRA Software Engineer In Test interview questions

Updated 1 Dec 2023

based on 5 ratings

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Software Engineer In Test Interview

1 Dec 2023

Anonymous interview candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Average interview

Application

I interviewed at FINRA

Interview

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,

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Given a string, determine if it is a palindrome.

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Software Developer In Test Interview

5 Jan 2016

Anonymous interview candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

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....

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Developer In Test Interview

29 Oct 2015

Anonymous interview candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Average interview

Application

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)

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