I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at AKUNA CAPITAL (Champaign, IL)
Interview
Met them at a career fair. Talked with an software engineer about Akuna capital and the dev team. Got an email next week -> Started with a coding challenge, followed by a phone interview & Final interview. Everything was mainly focused on Python since I used Python in the coding challenge on hackerrank.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Python - magic methods, memory management, duplicate elements in a list. decorators. Big o of python data structures, GIL, map vs list comprehensions.
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
Interview questions [1]
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
45 mins includes a self introduction and three hacker rank questions, two standard ones, one LRU. Hackerrank questions are usually long and need some time to understand unlike straightforward leetcode style.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
introduce yourself (not important, just eat up your coding time