I applied online. I interviewed at Fidelity Investments (Boston, MA) in May 2017
Interview
30 minute phone call with a recruiter, 30 minute phone call with the hiring manager, and about a 2 hour onsite composed of four 1 on 1 interviews with the hiring manager and 3 engineer/architect/director.
The phone calls were pretty much the standard behavioral questions like why Fidelity Investments, tell me about yourself, what you'd like to do, etc.
The onsite interviews were most behavioral questions, but there was 1 "technical" round. The technical round wasn't based on problem solving, data structures, algorithms, team work or any of the standard technical interviews you'd expect. It was just a bunch of questions on specific parts of technologies and the expectation was that you would be able to read the interviewers mind and respond with the exact answer in his head. Other than the "technical" round, the other interviewers went pretty well; the interviewers were friendly and the conversations were good.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Unfortunately, I do not remember any of the specific questions asked in the"technical" round. They were a bit ridiculous. No SQL/databse, data structure, algorithm, concurrency, programming language specific, etc related questions.
I interviewed at Fidelity Investments (Smithfield, RI)
Interview
Started with a recruiter screening, followed by a 60 minute panel interview where we did a coding problem and discussed technical background. The interviewers were very friendly and I felt confident. Been a week, waiting to hear back about next steps
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Fidelity Investments in Jul 2026
Interview
The interview process was more like a conversation. The first part of the interview was a phone call. The second part is a 1 hour long interview split into 2 parts. A 30min behavioral and 30min technical with 2 different people
HR was the first round
Followed by HM
HR asked for availability and resume then just disappeared
Even after following up, no response
Then next week for the same role, same message she sent to a friend of mine
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked for availability and then totally ghosted me
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Fidelity Investments with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 72% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 17 days to get hired, when considering 138 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Fidelity Investments overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Fidelity Investments as a Software Engineer according to 138 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 23%
One on one interview: 18%
Skills test: 14%
Group panel interview: 11%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 7%
Drug test: 7%
Personality test: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Other: 1%
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