I was called again after 2 months of my onsite after my first rejection (due to my expectations of salary), for open positions in the same role as before. Now remember these guys have already interviewed me before for the same role and I was asked to interview again. The interview went really well for the technical part but the HR lady didn't look that happy. These guys really aren't looking for any experience , just knowledge of C++ is required and hence the technical interview was just resume based on my projects. I get a call 2 days later by the HR saying that I have not been selected and the reason is that I have no prior experience or projects related to their role. 1) These guys had my resume for over 4 months now since the beginning of my first round to my second onsite. 2) Their description for the same role says nothing of this sort. And this is the stupid reason they give me, they shouldn't have interviewed me in the first place and now TWO times?. I had actually aced the technical part in each rounds and the tech engineer was really happy on the phone screen too. My experience in these interviews tell me that no matter how strong your technical skills are no matter how amazing projects on C++ you have the whole thing comes up to impressing the HR lady at least in the NJ office. The first time it looked as if she was the one to halt my offer and same this time too because I said in the HR interview ("Being a new grad I have no large scale projects related what Fidessa does"). They really just know how to waste time of students and the entire thing is completely unprofessional and time wasting for new graduates specially if you're not from a great college no matter how strong your technical is. Everything worked out for me though as I received offer from Google two weeks later and I was glad that I didn't receive and offer from them.

Bizarre and disrespectful. No coding questions asked, but he did ask me to speak a lot in detail about my project at my last job 2 years ago, down to details in the implementation that I could barely recall. Interviewers should respect or realize that other companies have NDAs and it's icky to press for super fine-grained technical details, but he kept asking. He also challenged things my company did and acted like he knew better than the people who actually worked there, and I was caught so off-guard I only realized after the interview how incorrect he was. For instance, I brought up the technical challenge of loading "50 2-minute videos 1080 p videos at 60 fps" from disk to heap memory." He very confidently told me that we could've just loaded all frames of all~ 50 videos at once into a very big array and that any personal computer which had 32 GB of RAM was "more than enough". There's a difference between RAM and heap memory, but even assuming I could allocate a 32 GB array in C++ without problems, the *actual* amount of memory required would've been 4 bytes/pixel x (1920×1080) pixels/frame x 60 frame/sec x 60 sec/min x 2 min x 50 videos = 2985.984 GB (This was just one of a few instances where he was like "maybe you guys should've tried this".) Also, I just got ghosted with not follow up interview. Was a waste of time, and it's sad they have interviewers who can't do math :(