Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at BlackRock with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 133 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at BlackRock overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at BlackRock as a Software Engineer according to 133 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 26%
Phone interview: 20%
Skills test: 18%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 8%
Group panel interview: 7%
Drug test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Other: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at BlackRock (Budapest) in Mar 2021
Interview
After completing the fourth round, I wasn't even contacted for a follow-up. The overall experience was quite disappointing, and it seemed like the interviewer wasn't genuinely interested in what I had to say.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
During the interview, they posed fundamental Java-related queries, such as: What is the difference between an interface and an abstract class? How does method overloading differ from method overriding? Can you explain the concept of encapsulation? What is the purpose of the 'final' keyword in Java?
They ask you about 3 questions, in which you have 2-3 minutes to prepare before recording your answer. You get 3 attempts to retry incase you aren't happy with your first recording.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you worked in a team to overcome a challenge.
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.