I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at AKUNA CAPITAL in July 2016
Interview
Applied online and received an email about two weeks later with an invitation for a pre-screening programming aptitude test through HackerRank. The problem was to parse a binary file containing trade information exchanges and extract various information from it. It was pretty easy but somewhat time consuming. I did get 72 hours to complete the task and it probably took me about 5 hours total with testing and everything. Make sure your code compiles and runs on Linux! I received an invitation for a phone screen a week later. The phone screen lasted about 45 min and was mostly a conceptual discussion about C++ with special focus on C++11. HR set up a codepair on HackerRank but the interviewer did not want to use it so there was no coding involved.The conversation was actually a bit awkward but it was otherwise fair. I received a timely email two days later stating that they wont continue my candidacy. Overall fair process and reasonable timely rejection notice.
I applied online. I interviewed at AKUNA CAPITAL (Chicago, IL) in Jan 2026
Interview
They ask difficult questions but, given the role they seemed fair. They are painfully slow about the process and I wasn't able to attend the final round interview due to a job deadline I had informed them about, which I had to commit to since they did not reach back soon enough. Later they informed me they'd like to continue but it was too late lol.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Talk about your professional and educational experience with C++
First receive a online assignment that has 10 multiple choices and 3 coding, if you pass, you will revice another round of online assignment, which is about the same fottmat. This is the hardest OA I have ever done. Fail at the second round of the OA.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
MC that require deep understanding of C++, and coding without any provided test cases
Gives you some code and a task with CodePair, ask about your idea and complete part of the code. Expect extensive questions about C++ 11/17/20. You can google documents for C++.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In order to remove the element from the linked list and use it somewhere else, how do you do that efficiently?