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Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York

June 1, 2016
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

They asked me to solve a HackerRank test. I completed it, and the recruiter directly called, saying I did "pretty well" on the HackerRank test and that they were skipping the phone screening. The onsite interview was one week later, with four all-technical rounds. The questions focused on data structures and were of an average difficulty level. Nothing was unsolvable; the problems were simple yet required an in-depth understanding of data structures in Java. The final round of the onsite was a bit trickier, involving a programming puzzle that was a different type of problem. The interviewer helped me solve it, and I finally understood the problem type. Barring that one problem, I was able to solve more or less all other questions. All interviewers were very helpful and pretty good. Overall, it was a nice experience.

However, on the downside, I haven't received any reply yet, and it's been 10 days already. There has been no reply to a follow-up email either. At the very least, they should provide some feedback after inviting someone for an onsite interview. I took a day off for the interview, so I'm pretty disappointed.

Questions

Questions related to array/string manipulations and recursion. The puzzle was a bit unexpected.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 48 interview experiences for the BlackRock Software Engineer role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

17%
Pass Rate

BlackRock's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in New York, New York is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral38%
Negative13%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for BlackRock's Software Engineer interview process in New York, New York.

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