I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Blackhawk Network (Pleasanton, CA)
Interview
1 phone screen and one onsite interview, Was offered very low salary and recruiter was not all responsive. Don't know if this was his attitude or the company's. I went for another offer. They just did not seem to care about losing someone they selected after spending so much time on interviewing. Must say I was totally disappointed since I did not expect this from a Company I wanted to get into for a long time.
I interviewed at Blackhawk Network (Pleasanton, CA)
Interview
1 recruiter interview its just questions related to salary, experiences and visa status
2 hiring manager behavior interview
3 coding virtual leetcode easy to medium. Very positive experience
4 onsite whiteboard with two staff engineers
Still no decision
Interview Experience at EY – Software Engineer Role
🔹 Spring Boot & Transactions
• What is transient in Spring Boot?
• Explain @Transactional annotation, how it works internally, and how transactions are managed in the database.
🔹 Spring & JPA
• Difference between @Controller and @RestController.
• How does @ControllerAdvice work?
• JPA Repository vs Crud Repository – when to use which?
🔹 Core Java Concepts
• ExecutorService – how it works, use cases.
• Pool memory vs Heap memory.
• HashMap internal working (buckets, hashing, collisions, resizing).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interview Experience at EY – Software Engineer Role
🔹 Spring Boot & Transactions
• What is transient in Spring Boot?
• Explain @Transactional annotation, how it works internally, and how transactions are managed in the database.
🔹 Spring & JPA
• Difference between @Controller and @RestController.
• How does @ControllerAdvice work?
• JPA Repository vs Crud Repository – when to use which?
🔹 Core Java Concepts
• ExecutorService – how it works, use cases.
• Pool memory vs Heap memory.
• HashMap internal working (buckets, hashing, collisions, resizing).
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Blackhawk Network (Bengaluru) in July 2021
Interview
Interview was same as other product bases companies.
1st round online assessment
2nd round was focused on problem solving
3rd round was focused on Java, DS and one system design question, interview went for more than 1.5 hour
4th round was manager round, focused on resume and few soft skills question
Manager was pretty impressed and was asking to join early. I have already told them my competitive offer amount but still they were quoting 5lac less than that. that too from base salary part.
this is utterly disgusting behaviour, why you are wasting time fo candidates if you can beat the competitive offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One DP problem can be solved by unbounded knapsack, just need to tweak a bit.