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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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at FactSet (Norwalk, CT) in Oct 2010
Interview
Was contacted by recruiter after submitting resume through school's career center. Got a phone interview scheduled a week later, also got asked to send them a code sample. Waiting to hear whether I made it as of this moment.
The company employees are really friendly, at least from what I perceived. One thing that does bother me though is they seem to have a thing for C++ over other languages, even though they list "any OO language" on their job posting.
I was told that my interviewer would ask me some background questions, some questions about my resume and code sample, and some technical questions. When she did call, we only discussed my resume (which took quite a while, actually), and she did not ask anything about the code sample (which was a little disappointing because I had spent a while cleaning it up and packaging it...). Afterwards there were three technical questions.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Write a method that loops through 1-100, and prints "fizz" when the number is a multiple of 3, "buzz" when the number is a multiple of 5, and "fizzbuzz" when the number is a multiple of both 3 and 5.
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.