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Data Engineer Interview Experience

February 1, 2018
Negative ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Extremely slow and frustrating.

The process has taken over 4 months, and I finished the last round over 2 weeks back but haven't heard from them. There have been no replies to follow-ups either.

Additionally, every single interview has been rescheduled at least once.

The interviews and interviewers have been good, though.

  • First round: Phone interview, general information about me.
  • Second round: HackerRank Challenge, easy to medium difficulty questions.
  • Third round: Technical interview, asked to solve two coding challenges in 20 minutes. One was based on BST, and the other was just logical.
  • Fourth round: Four back-to-back interviews on Skype. All technical. Asked to code on CollabEdit.

Questions

Common ancestor in BST.

Code internals of Kafka.

Java-based questions.

Few questions about Spark.

Implement LRU cache.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 8 interview experiences for the BlackRock Data Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

13%
Pass Rate

BlackRock's interview process for their Data Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive38%
Neutral0%
Negative63%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for BlackRock's Data Engineer interview process in United States.

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