I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at FactSet (Bhopal) in Aug 2016
Interview
Whole process comprises of 4 rounds:
1st round written pen and paper round consist of 3 questions they have 10, 15, and 25 marks.
After this round 35 students were selected out of 103 students.
2nd round Ask some basic question on binary search, sql query, oops concept and then ended the interview by asking question on string.
This round is also elimination round
3rd round asked question how to abstract name, email id, mobile number and skills from unstructured data and to count number of palindromic sub-string of any length in a given length.
I am eliminated after this round.
After this round students are called for HR round.
GeeksforGeeks is definitely going to help you a lot.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at FactSet (London, England) in Feb 2026
Interview
3 rounds of interviews.
1 behavioural interview, 1 technical interview (leetcode), 1 system design interview
all interviews were online.
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Interview questions [2]
Question 1
System Design:
Design google docs with version control.
Standard with 4 rounds including a phone interview and a HR interview. The product demo is the intro, after which a tech and HR rounds occur back to back. Usually takes 3.5 hours after the 1 hour phone interview
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at FactSet (Hyderābād) in Dec 2025
Interview
It was a very casual interview. I was told the interview would start at 8:45 AM but it started around 10 AM. The interviewer was very friendly and walked me through my thought process towards solving the given problem. There were two rounds of interviews, purely technical though I did not get shortlisted for the second round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of integers, and an integer k, what is the length of the longest subarray of the same consecutive integers we can get if we can remove any k elements from the array.
Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at FactSet with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 316 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at FactSet overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at FactSet as a Software Developer according to 316 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 23%
Skills test: 14%
Group panel interview: 11%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Personality test: 3%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 1%
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