Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Macquarie Group with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 62% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 21 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Macquarie Group overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Macquarie Group as a Software Developer according to 21 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 20%
Group panel interview: 16%
Phone interview: 16%
IQ intelligence test: 11%
Personality test: 10%
Presentation: 8%
Skills test: 8%
Drug test: 5%
Background check: 3%
Other: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Macquarie Group (Houston, TX) in Mar 2016
Interview
Interview process was quite hectic and time consuming. Wished I have read reviews about this company's interviews before going. This company more or less play around with people's time. They interviewed me for a technical screening for about 45 minutes when they showed me a demeanor that I didn't get it. I told the recruiter I don't see a point of going forward they sounded unimpressed and that's fine I can look somewhere else. After the recruiter talked with hiring manager, she came back to me telling me that they want me to take a test of an hour. The test took 2 hours to finish which were mostly asking about difference between older technologies and newer ones, tracing questions and programming concepts. After finishing the test, one can't get hold of the results since macquarie owns the results, they asked to meet up with me. In going there, it was another set of technical interviews. The hiring manager who interviewed me at first didn't ask any different questions than the ones he first interviewed me weeks before. I was shocked that I found there's nothing new he wanted to find out along with his demeanor that I didn't make sense (which also the recruiter told me that the hiring manager is weird), after that two other developers came to interviewe me to white board things, as if no one looked at my test i put before that interview. They asked me to write code and kept asking me how certain technologies work, questions were asked in a very vague manner and didn't seem that they had the questions organized.
Two days later, the recruiter contacted me to tell me that they said I am good in problem solving and analysis but not in hands on coding.
Absurd, I already code daily in my life even through my weekends. Waste of time. Look somewhere else. Interviewing in tests and exams has become an overstretch in the software field and doesn't make sense most of the questions at times.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Draw to us diagrams of current project you are working on.
(based on my current project contract I should not expose most of the architectures that I work on.) Interviewers should know this question is not legit.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Macquarie Group (Houston, TX)
Interview
I had a total of three interviews with macquarie. I had one that was with hiring manager. The next two were code based interviews one on a white board and the next was with the head of engineering.
I applied online. I interviewed at Macquarie Group (New Delhi) in Apr 2026
Interview
There were 2 rounds of interview, one was technical and the other was techno managerial round they asked basic coding questions related to dsa and advanced python based on decorators, shallow and deep copy and in techno managerial round they tried to understand the current project and job role and some questions related to BFSI domain.
I applied online. I interviewed at Macquarie Group (Sydney)
Interview
First round - Resume experience discussion
Second round - Systeme Design and API Design
Didn't pass the second one. The interviewer didn't consider my experience, just thought about what they do in the daily work.