Fidelity Investments Internship Interview Experience | On-Campus 2022
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Fidelity Investments visited my college to recruit students for internship graduating in 2023.Round 0 (Online Test - 120 Minutes): The online test was held on the Hirepro ...
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Fidelity Investments visited my college to recruit students for internship graduating in 2023. Round 0 (Online Test - 120 Minutes): The online test was held on the Hirepro platform. The test had four broad sections (each section was separately timed), namely: Section 1. English (10 MCQ's - 15 minutes)- Standard English questions on fill up with an appropriate word, passage comprehension, and synonyms of underlined sections of sentences. Section 2. Technical (20 MCQ's - 30 minutes) - Basic CS fundamentals and DSA questions. Section 3. Coding (2 - 60 minutes) - Print all permutations of a given String. Find minimum number of currency notes and values that sum to given amount {2000,500,100,50}. Section 4. Algorithm (2 - 15 minutes) - We were given two scenarios and asked to create an algorithm for each. Out of about 2000+ students in the CS department, about 60 students were shortlisted for the Interviews. I was one of them. Round 1(
Technical Interview 40 minutes): The length of the interview varies depending on the interviewer, mine interview lasted 15 minutes. After introducing himself, the interviewer asked for my introduction. Discussion into my projects (My project was Android Application connected with firebase.) Then he inquired about my one-month internship, including what I worked on and my experience. Simultaneously, he was glancing over my resume and inquiring about the section on achievements and certifications. He asked me what I know about cloud storage? Also last ques, Where do you see yourself in 10 years? And he asked if I had any questions for him. Around 30 Students(including myself) were shortlisted for HR Interview. Round 2(HR Interview – 25 minutes): The length of the interview varies depending on the interviewer, mine interview lasted 15 minutes. After introducing herself, the interviewer asked for my introduction. Any achievement that isn't related to your studies. Have you ever been in charge of a team or a project? Why do you want to work for our company? What are your strengths? How do you work as a team or as an individual? We discussed about my project as well. And she asked if I had any questions for her. On the next day, 20 students were offered final internship offers.
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This is a candidate experience report from a fidelity investments interview for a android role (intern level) during the oa round reported in 2024.
It covers the following topics: Strings .
Difficulty rating: Easy
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This question was reported by a candidate who interviewed at Fidelity Investments. LeakCode aggregates interview reports from 10+ sources, including 1Point3Acres, Glassdoor, LeetCode Discuss, Blind, Reddit, Indeed, and Nowcoder. Each report is translated where necessary, deduplicated against existing entries, and tagged by company, role, round type, and reporting date.
Use this question as one calibration data point, not a memorization target. Companies typically rotate their question pools every 2-4 months; the exact wording of a 2024 question may differ from what you encounter today. The underlying pattern, difficulty level, and follow-up depth at Fidelity Investments are the higher-signal extractions to take from this report.
For broader preparation context, the Fidelity Investments interview process typically includes a recruiter screen, one or two technical phone screens, and a 4-5 round on-site loop covering coding, system design (at L4+ levels), and behavioral. Reports tagged on LeakCode show the round-by-round distribution and typical difficulty calibration. To browse questions filtered by round type and seniority, use the company hub linked above.
How To Practice This Type of Question
Solve similar problems on LeetCode under timed conditions (25-35 minutes per medium difficulty). The goal is pattern recognition: recognize the underlying technique (sliding window, two-pointer, BFS, memoized recursion, etc.) within 60-90 seconds of reading. Strong candidates verbalize their hypothesis out loud before coding, then iterate based on feedback. Weak candidates dive into implementation immediately, lose time on the wrong approach, and run out of time for follow-ups.
Companies update their question pools every 2-4 months. The exact wording of any given question may have been retired by the time you interview. Focus your prep on the pattern, not the specific problem. The patterns that appear in Fidelity Investments reports consistently are the ones worth investing in; one-off niche problems are not.
During Your Fidelity Investments Round
Apply the standard interview round template: clarify requirements (2-3 minutes), state your approach out loud and confirm direction with the interviewer (3-5 minutes), code with narration (15-25 minutes), test with concrete examples including edge cases (5 minutes), discuss optimization or trade-offs if time permits (5 minutes). This template is universally accepted across FAANG and adjacent companies; deviating from it produces weaker interviewer feedback signal.
The single most predictive failure mode in Fidelity Investments reports tagged "no hire": not asking clarifying questions. Interviewers are explicitly trained to weight this. Strong candidates ask 3-5 clarifying questions even on problems that look obvious; weak candidates dive into code immediately. The clarifying-question check is often the first signal recorded in the interviewer's written notes.