I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at FactSet (Taguig) in Jul 2015
Interview
The first step is a phone interview. It was mostly background check, but there were few technical questions towards the end of the call. If the interviewers think you might qualify, you will be invited to an on-site technical examination. You have 1 hour to answer 15 questions - half of it are about your knowledge in OOO concepts and the other half are either pen and paper programming, debugging and/or tracing. If you do well on the exam, you will be invited to another on-site technical interview -which is whiteboard programming. You will be given 4 coding problems, and write your solutions on a whiteboard. If you pass, you will be interviewed, finally, by the hiring manager, which is highly technical at the beginning, and mostly behavioral towards the end. If you pass it, you're on for the job offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a database schema for a library.
Assumptions are:
* a book has a title
* an author has a first name, last name
* a book can have many authors
* an author can have many books.
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 Engineer 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 Engineer 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 Engineer 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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