I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at BlackRock (Atlanta, GA) in July 2019
Interview
I applied online and received a hackerrank coding challenge and scheduled for an on-site interview at Atlanta. On the day of the interview, the building was a WeWork co-working space and they have not provided for parking fee which was quite much. Since they don't own the building there were no basic facilities provided or at least easily available like a mineral water bottle. The total interview was about 3-4 hours long with 3 technical rounds. Interviewers were nice but there was not adequate break between each round.
For on technical round interviewer come up with his/her laptop and took 10 minutes to set up and then asked to finish the challenge in remaining time for that hour and it was a bad experience. Since I was expecting a workstation with readily setup development environment for a challenge. After completion of all-round lunch was served with a presentation about Blackrock, just after that final decision was conveyed which is really good that they didn't make us wait long. After I received the decision asked for just feedback on an interview for learning and development purpose a couple of times but seems to me they don't care/respect candidates enough to reply even after I followed up.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
*Difference between ArrayList and LinkedList and related questions
*What is the one thing you did in your work experience which had conflicted opinions and you made your points and come up with the solution.
*What important decision you made in a job for the project?
* A coding challenge to be solved on an IDE with an interviewer.
The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at BlackRock (New York, NY)
Interview
First you get call from HR to dicuss at high level about your current role and reason for a change. This is just a getting to know call since they already are planning to pass you to technical interview round 1.
In the first technical round you are put forth an Associate Developer who kind of does the screening. He/she may ask you questions based on there experience. Questions I was asked were theory-based and it felt like a template.
Once you clear that you get to round 2 where a senior dev and a hiring manager takes interview as a panel.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at BlackRock in Oct 2021
Interview
overall the process is nice but they are never interested in talking.
They said you have cleared all the rounds and after that HR will forget you like anything.
Pathetic experience.
The company should work in HR department.
Its quite frustrating when you have to keep chasing the HR again and again.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at BlackRock (Edinburgh, Scotland) in July 2021
Interview
Had an introduction to the role, chat about what the AI Labs do and how they do it. Moved onto questions, had prepared quite a few, so asked how long there was interviewer seemed confident there would be enough time so gave no time limit. There wasn't and he had to cut me off. Then moved to the CV review, asked if there were any details he wanted to focus in on, just asked about the current role. Tried to delegate control to ensure the interviewer got what he wanted to know, but felt he only did this when it was clear time was running out. Was told I would be contacted in a few days, followed up three times, once by email, twice by phone, totally ghosted, not even acknowledged. Was expecting better from BlackRock, can accept my CV wasn't quite in line with expectations, but no excuse for not responding. I feel if that was the reason for rejection, shouldn't have made it past the CV screening stage.
