Point72 Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
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and how the experience turned out.
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Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Point72.
Point72
Software Engineer Intern
Intern Average Positive experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Take home Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral Coding
The process kicked off with a HackerRank assessment, which also included a Math OA. Later on, there was a Superday with two 30-minute rounds, covering both behavioral and technical aspects. It's important that your resume is strong and matches the role requirements. You should be able to talk about your resume and know your DSA, plus understand your coding OA solutions.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you walk me through your past experiences?
Point72
Software Engineer Intern
Intern Average Negative experience No offer 6 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Take home Technical screen Presentation Onsite
Interview formats
Coding Behavioral Technical Presentation
The issue is that you don't know the entire hiring process until you get the HR call. This internship position alone has 6 stages. This includes a coding test, HR call, team call, a take-home test (which has a 48-hour deadline), a presentation call, and an onsite interview. My interview times were rescheduled twice without any reason given. I was rejected, and they said they'd give feedback at the end, which I expected but never got. It was unprofessional to reschedule this rejection call as well.
Confirmed questions1 question
- What is your motivation for wanting to work at Point 72?
Point72
Software Engineer
Mid Easy Negative experience Decline offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite Background check Offer
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral
Interviews were ok - 3 stages - 2 technical and one HR interview. The company was not clear about the interview process, for example I got the phone call they are writing my offer letter and then they added the HR interview. In the end it was a waste of time, I stated from the beginning my desired salary, I was informed it is in the budget. I then repeated the expectation during the interview with the TL, who stated that should not be a problem. I passed all stages and afterwards got an offer that was less than my current income and with way worse benefits (I was clear from the beginning I am only interested in a change for financial reasons).
Confirmed questions4 questions
- A lot of t-SQL related questions.
- General programming questions.
- OOP questions.
Point72 Software Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Point72 interview reports.
“Given natural numbers p, q, and r such that p < q < r, what is the smallest value of k that does not uniquely determine p, q, and r?”
Read reports →“What is the next number in the sequence: 2, 4, 50, 30, 70, 62?”
Read reports →“Describe how to read streaming data from a TCP socket.”
Read reports →“Implement a quote handler and a query function to fetch the most recent quote for a specific symbol, considering multiple exchanges and symbols.”
Read reports →“Can you write a function to print the elements of a 2D array in a clockwise spiral pattern, beginning from the top-left corner?”
Read report →“Regarding Java hash maps, which methods are essential to override?”
Read report →“What are the mechanisms for interprocess communication using shared memory?”
Read report →“Can you find bugs in these short C++ programs?”
Read report →“Design a low latency trading system, incorporating order latency into the backtesting parameters.”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 30 Point72 interview reports.