One phone call interview that lasted for ~30 minutes, then a take home project about web scraping on Fin data, took me about 2 days to complete. Currently on the technical interview round, no idea what's about to happen
I interviewed at Trexquant Investment (Stamford, CT)
Interview
Worst interview experience of my career.
First stage was phone screen with recruiter. That part was fine. Typical phone screen.
Second stage, video interview with the CEO. Why is the CEO directly hiring IC employees? That should have been a red flag right away. During the interview he was rude, arrogant, and aloof. Seemed to not want to be there. Didn't introduce himself, just launched straight into questions, mostly shallow resume review, and I sensed he wasn't actually paying attention to my answers. Terminated the interview precisely at 30 minutes, didn't offer me an opportunity to ask any questions, didn't even say goodbye or thanks.
If this is how he treats people during the interview process I can't imagine working here! Good thing he didn't like me - would never want to work at his company.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Trexquant Investment in Dec 2024
Interview
First, accomplish a take home project. First Round Interview mainly focused on pandas and numpy skills and use numpy or pandas to do normalization. English interview even for mainland China interviewees.
Data Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Trexquant Investment with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 25% positive. To compare, the company-average is 38.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Trexquant Investment overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Trexquant Investment as a Data Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
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