I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Intercontinental Exchange (Atlanta, GA) in Dec 2015
Interview
I had to go through 3 rounds of interviews
1. Hireview questions were recorded and all candidates get same questions. answers are video recorded and reviewed.
2. phone screen all technical questions
3. very hard face to dace interview
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
first round hireview is basics java, concurrency, collections, basic OO, basic sql questions. this is a recorded session so all candidates will get same questions.
finally face to face. this is 6 hour long and they will decide very quick the result.
First is a Java test. expect to write long java programs with pen and paper. should write code accurately no psudo code java code. some of the questions were insert node in tree, find the bug in single linked list which is looping. Heavy multi threading concurrency questions. thread contention, java 5+ concurrency API lots of multi threading in depth questions. somof the questions ae when java does context switching explain what happens in CPU level1,level2,level3 cache. how do you optmize hit miss on cpu cache with java threading. questions about DB partition sharding, network topology in cassandra, clearly Big 0 questions. java concurrency concurrency collections framework questions
I was asked to write on white board function in java to recursively delete files and then in a directory tree. Java code with semi colons command and perfect syntax was expected. boundary conditions need to be handled. unit tests were asked to be written.