2 first-hand experiences · See open roles at Intercontinental Exchange
ICE hires across a wide range of roles (quant/risk analytics, financial engineering, exchange/FICC operations, corporate/compliance, and a large Java/Spring engineering org that includes ICE Mortgage Technology). Loops are relatively short: typically an HR or recruiter phone screen, one or two virtual technical or manager rounds, and a final onsite or panel. Technical roles emphasize fixed-income domain knowledge (YTM/YTW, duration, OAS, ABS, Monte Carlo, clean vs dirty price), practical Java/Spring Boot/Kafka/SQL, and a bond-portfolio take-home for senior Java candidates. Non-quant roles skew heavily behavioral with resume walkthroughs and generalist aptitude/brain-teasers.
These 2 writeups cover software engineering, quant and data, exchange operations and other roles. All of them were posted under a pseudonym (Reddit, GeeksforGeeks or forum handles), so we could not verify the authors’ identities.
Most frequently reported · API design(1), Behavioral(1), Bond pricing(1), Financial modeling(1), Fixed income(1)
ICE's public careers page frames hiring around business areas (exchanges, fixed income and data services, mortgage technology) and points candidates to Workday requisitions; it does not publish a per-stage interview breakdown.
Read Intercontinental Exchange’s own hiring pageFixed income·Bond pricing·Python·SQL·Java·Spring Boot·System design·Behavioral·Resume deep-dive·Aptitude
Not selected1 round
Scheduled as a 15-minute HR call but ran roughly 30 minutes; recruiter walked the resume, asked why ICE, probed a graduation-to-now gap, then layered in pre-screen technical prompts on popular bond types, clean vs dirty price, and standard bond parameters.
Covered · Behavioral, Resume deep-dive, Fixed income, Bond pricing
Shared by Anonymous WSO submission on wso · 2026-08-07
Outcome not shared1 round
Candidate published their submission for ICE's Senior Java Developer assessment: a Spring Boot service that models a bond portfolio, calculates yield-to-maturity via Newton-Raphson, Macaulay and Modified duration, and exposes a versioned REST API with Swagger UI. Bundled a Docker Compose stack (PostgreSQL 16 + app), an H2-backed integration test suite (~31 tests across bond validation, YTM edge cases, duration against textbook values, and full API lifecycle) and a fixed-clock strategy for deterministic tests.
Covered · Java, Spring Boot, API design, Testing, Financial modeling
Shared by jmc90180 on github · 2026-03-10
These guides summarize public, first-hand interview experiences shared by candidates. They describe the shape of each loop and the topics that came up, not a leaked question bank, and every experience links back to its original source. Processes change often. Treat this as directional prep, not a script.