I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at BlackRock (New York, NY) in Feb 2017
Interview
The process took 2+ months. Initially contacted by the recruiter with HackerRank Challenge, a phone interview week after that and 4 Technical onsite interviews. Took 4+ weeks to respond with final decision.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HackerRank Coding Challenge
- 2 simple JavaScript
- 5 Sql
- 1 Java
- Submit link of project or GitHub
Phone Interview
- Introduction
- Resume, projects, courses
- Be a student of the market – pay close attention to the financial markets and how different events affect the industry.
Onsite Inteview
- About resume and other behavioural
- Swap integers without extra space
- Merge 2 sorted arrays
- Hashmap
- Reverse a string
Elevator design
Four interviews, forty five mins each. Met folks from different teams for their rotation program. Everyone was super smart and clearly excited about working there. Didn't end up taking the job because I decided to stay outside Chicago.
There was fitst technical round out of three round.
In my first round they asked a DSA Coding question. I do not quite remember the question that was asked, but it did not go well and was rejected.
I applied through university. I interviewed at BlackRock (Manipal) in Sep 2025
Interview
On campus Interview, asked question about my projects and resume in depth. No dsa questions, just grilled on resume and websockets.
Two round, technical focused on my resume and one HR round that focused on getting to know me and normal hr questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you describe AI to childs or old people?
