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3935 interview stories from candidates at 857 companies: how each round went, what was asked and how it ended. Every company page links to practice questions in the same style.
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- Order-Matching HackerRank Then a Quant Systems Deep DiveTwo Sigma · Quantitative Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026
Round 1: HackerRank Coding — Stock Exchange / Order Matching The task was to implement buy/sell order matching: Buy side uses max priority. Sell side uses min priority. Match orders when the price can cross. Handle partial fills. Output trade records. Handle the remaining resting orders. Follow-ups: How to add more tests to increase confidence. Why my output didn't match the sample. How multiple…
- Two OA Questions, Advanced the Next DayTwo Sigma · Software Engineer · New Grad · Online Assessment · Jun 2026In progress
I applied for Two Sigma's New Grad SWE role. I didn't have much hope going in — not long after a mass application round, I got an OA invite: two problems to solve together in one time-limited session. Before applying I'd heard this company has a lot of rejection stories, so I specifically went and dug through the forum to do my homework. Several posts said the OA questions on the forum were the a…
- Piecewise Interpolation, Temperature Prediction, and Streaming Linear Regression on the OATwo Sigma · Data Scientist · Online Assessment · Apr 2026
This Two Sigma research OA is also an old question that's been floating around on the forum. Question 1: You're given a bunch of discrete points that connect into a polyline. Now you're given an x, and you need to compute the corresponding y. If x falls between two points, do linear interpolation; if it falls outside the range, extend the line segments on either end to compute it. The question ma…
- Rejected After One Technical Screen on a Huffman-Style Encoding ProblemTwo Sigma · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Dec 2025Rejected
11.9 – applied 11.12 – OA 11.24 – got the invite for the next round 12.1 – interview 12.3 – rejection letter The interviewer's English was really good, and he was patient and kept trying to guide me, but at the time I just couldn't understand why we needed to build a tree to encode things. It wasn't until later that it clicked — it's to get a unique binary representation, so that the most frequen…
