Automatic email to take a hacker rank exam. Extremely unprofessional and took zero effort to reach out to people. Hackerrack was extremely hard and involved questions a senior software engineer would not be able to answer. Multiple choice had everything you've learned in school and then some. Coding exam was extremely unreasonable and they are trying to hire a software engineer and pay them a junior level salary to do impossible code.
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Question 1
Do you want to get paid like a child while working a adult job?
I applied online. I interviewed at AKUNA CAPITAL (Chicago, IL) in May 2026
Interview
Got a hackerrank challenge to solve a question in c++ in 3 days time. I spent lot of time to solve it. Was able to pass all tests. But I got reject saying my experience does not match their experience. Although it is a junior role. My issue is they should not have asked me to take the test if my experience does not match since this challenge was a project not a 1 hour leetcode type of question.
I applied online. I interviewed at AKUNA CAPITAL (Shanghai, Shanghai) in Aug 2025
Interview
1. Online hackerrank problem, not leetcode style, more like a simulation problem, difficulty: medium;
2. 4 rounds technical interview, focus on: C++(STL, low-level optimization, etc), networking;
3. Final round with HR and CTO, behaviour questions.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at AKUNA CAPITAL (Chicago, IL) in Aug 2025
Interview
You get a technical OA which I am guessing is automatic, then interview rounds leading to fly out to Chicago for an in person interview presumably whiteboard style but I didn't make it to in person
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Question 1
There was a hard C++ LC question for the OA so you get filtered out from that if you're not ready, then the interview process isn't too hard but the technical aspects are