JPMorganChase interview process (2026)
Round-by-round breakdown of the JPMorganChase software engineering interview across 5 levels and 24 rounds: interview mode, sample questions, and worked solutions.
Software Engineer Program (SEP) Summer Intern — Code for Good / off-campus route
Difficulty: Medium · Timeline: ~4-5 month · Recommended prep: 4-8 weeks · Cooldown: Re-apply next cycle (annual). No formal published cooldown.
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Round 0: Resume / Application Screening
Other · N/A (async) · difficulty 1/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Interview format varies by team
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Round 1: Online Coding Assessment (HackerRank)
Assessment · ~45-65 minutes · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Online assessment · HackerRank
Sample question: Merge Intervals — Given N intervals [start, end], merge all overlapping intervals and return the non-overlapping intervals that cover them. Input: first line N, then N lines each with two integers start and end. Output the merged intervals, one 'start end' per line, in ascending order.
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Round 2: HireVue Behavioral Video Interview
Behavioral · ~10-15 min · difficulty 1/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Live behavioral interview
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Round 3: Code for Good Hackathon (final assessment)
Onsite · ~24-hour · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview
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Round 4: Offer
Offer · Results ~Aug/Sep (Medium report: Aug 30)
Mode of interview: Offer discussion
Software Developer / SEP Summer Intern — On-campus placement route
Difficulty: Medium · Timeline: 1-2 days · Recommended prep: 4-8 weeks · Cooldown: Single campus cycle; re-apply not applicable within same pla
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Round 0: Online Coding Assessment (HackerRank)
Assessment · ~60-65 minutes · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Online assessment · HackerRank
Sample question: Maximise Pair Count — Given two arrays A (size N) and B (size M), form as many pairs (a from A, b from B) as possible such that a <= b, where each element is used in at most one pair. Output the maximum number of such pairs. Input: line 1 is N, line 2 is N integers (A), line 3 is M, line 4 is M integers (B). Output: the max pair count.
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Round 1: Technical Interview 1
Onsite · ~20-30 minutes · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview
Sample question: Highly Profitable Months — Given stock prices for N months and a parameter K, an interval of K consecutive months is 'highly profitable' if the prices are strictly increasing across those K months. Count how many such length-K windows exist. Input: line 1 is N, line 2 is N space-separated prices, line 3 is K. Output: the count.
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Round 2: Technical / Business Problem-Solving Interview 2
Onsite · ~30 minutes · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview
Sample question: Minimum Number of Meeting Rooms — Given N meetings with start and end times, find the minimum number of rooms required so no two overlapping meetings share a room. Input: line 1 is N, then N lines each with two integers start and end. Output: a single integer.
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Round 3: HR / Behavioral Round
Behavioral · ~15-20 minutes · difficulty 1/5
Mode of interview: Live behavioral interview
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Round 4: Offer
Offer · Often within hours of the final interview
Mode of interview: Offer discussion
Software Engineer / Technology Analyst (Analyst, campus / entry-level) — Mumbai/Bengaluru/Hyderabad
Difficulty: Medium · Timeline: ~2-4 weeks · Recommended prep: 4-8 weeks · Cooldown: ~6-12 months
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Round 0: Online Assessment (HackerRank / HireVue)
Assessment · 60-90 min · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Online assessment
Sample question: Two Sum — Given an integer array and a target value, return the indices of the two numbers that add up to the target (framed by JPMorgan as 'find two transactions that net to a target amount'). Assume exactly one valid answer.
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Round 1: Technical Phone Screen
Phone · 45-60 min · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Remote phone or video interview
Sample question: Valid Anagram — Given two strings s and t, determine whether t is an anagram of s (same characters with the same frequencies). Print 'true' or 'false'.
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Round 2: Super Day - Coding / DSA
Onsite · 45 min · difficulty 2/5
Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview
Sample question: First Non-Repeating Character — Given a string, return the first character that does not repeat anywhere else in the string. If every character repeats, print '_'.
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Round 3: Super Day - CS Fundamentals / Design
Onsite · 45-60 min · difficulty 2/5
Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview
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Round 4: Super Day - Behavioral / Culture Fit
Behavioral · 45 min · difficulty 2/5
Mode of interview: Live behavioral interview
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Round 5: HR Round
Offer · 20-30 min
Mode of interview: Offer discussion
Software Engineer II / Associate (SDE-2, lateral) — Bengaluru/Hyderabad/Mumbai
Difficulty: Medium · Timeline: ~3-6 weeks · Recommended prep: 6-10 weeks · Cooldown: ~6-12 months
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Round 0: Online Assessment (HackerRank)
Assessment · ~60 min · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Online assessment
Sample question: Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters — Given a string, find the length of the longest substring that contains no repeating characters.
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Round 1: DSA Round (live, HackerRank with interviewer)
Onsite · 45-60 min · difficulty 3/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview
Sample question: Group Anagrams — Given a list of n words, group them so that words that are anagrams of one another are in the same group. Print each group on its own line.
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Round 2: System Design (HLD) round
System_design · 45-60 min · difficulty 3/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Live system design interview
Sample question: Design a real-time fraud / transaction-monitoring system — Design a system that ingests a high-volume stream of card/payment transactions and flags suspicious ones in real time. Discuss ingestion (Kafka), a rules + scoring layer, low-latency lookups (cache/feature store), storage for the audit trail, scaling, and how you keep false positives low while meeting compliance and latency SLAs.
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Round 3: Technical / Project & Code Review
Onsite · ~30-45 min · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview
Sample question: Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock II — Given stock prices for the next n days where you may buy or sell one share per day, maximize total profit. You may complete as many transactions as you like but must sell before buying again.
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Round 4: Hiring Manager Round
Behavioral · 45 min · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Live behavioral interview
Vice President / Lead Software Engineer (AVP-to-VP, SDE-3) — Bengaluru/Hyderabad/Mumbai
Difficulty: Medium · Timeline: Can be fast: one India candidate completed all 3 rounds on c · Recommended prep: 6-10 weeks · Cooldown: No published cooldown.
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Round 0: Coding Round (with a VP)
Onsite · ~60 min · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview
Sample question: Maximum Subarray (Kadane's Algorithm) — Given an integer array (which may contain negatives), find the contiguous subarray with the largest sum and print that sum.
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Round 1: Java Technical Deep-Dive (with an SDE-3)
Onsite · ~60 min · difficulty 3/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview
Sample question: Clone Graph (deep copy of a graph) — Given a graph with n nodes (labelled 1..n) and m edges, produce a deep copy of the graph (every node and edge newly allocated, no shared references) and print the adjacency list of the clone to prove structural equality.
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Round 2: Behavioral & Design (with an Executive Director)
Behavioral · ~60 min · difficulty 3/5 · elimination round
Mode of interview: Live behavioral interview
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Worked sample solutions (code, design diagrams, and STAR answers) for every round are available in the FAANGPlus app: open interview processes.