I recently attended an interview at Arcesium. To be honest, I did not know much about this company. Only heard about its association with D E Shaw. My interest in fin tech lead me to contact a recruiter and go for the interview. I attended the weekend drive and was pleasantly surprised by the well structured process and the effort taken to ensure we were comfortable. There was alot of food and snacks around. I had to wait for a while for my interview. Did not start on the given time but they kept us occupied by playing company videos. I attended two rounds
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table booking questions+DB+Trees. Lots of problem solving was covered
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Arcesium (Bengaluru) in Sept 2024
Interview
This was the first of 4 rounds of interviews. It was supposed to be a coding round focusing on the skills required for the role instead of leetcode problems or algorithmic puzzles.
Surprisingly , the interview questions were more focused on tricking the candidate with edge cases rather than evaluating practical understanding of JavaScript. These kind of "gotcha" questions often don't reflect real-world coding tasks or assess any ability to solve meaningful problems. This seemed to be an isolated interviewer problem though. Many tech companies are shifting towards interviews that focus on actual problem-solving and collaboration.
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Question 1
Very nested and convoluted code snippet involving sync and async expressions, including combinations of timeouts, promises, constructors, micro and macrotasks.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Arcesium (Hyderābād) in Feb 2024
Interview
one on one interview with senior members. it was a one hour session. It went good. It is completely backend role interview. Asked about current role and work. after that we did some hacker-rank.
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Java hacker rank link to solve two level sort using comparators
I applied online. I interviewed at Arcesium (Bengaluru) in Sept 2022
Interview
Online assessment.
2 interview rounds : both included data structures, algorithms and SQL.
Questions on core java, unchecked exceptions and super class and sub class.
Asked a tree and BFS related algorithm. Asked median of linked list.