I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at BlackRock (Wilmington, DE) in Mar 2017
Interview
First round was HackerRank coding challenge- mainly testing data structure concepts.
Then after a week they scheduled a video interview with four 45 minutes video rounds.
It started off with a session with the manager who went for a resume walk through and the scope and responsibilities of Aladdin group at BlackRock.The other 3 rounds were technical rounds where you will be tested based on your skills mentioned in resume like Java, Spring, Hibernate, Angular JS, other projects. Interviewers were friendly and knowledgable.Had a smooth experience. Waiting for results.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why BlackRock? Difference between stock and bonds. Angular Routing, Components, Hibernate mapping, HashMap internals, MultiThreading
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.
I applied through university. I interviewed at BlackRock (Manipal) in Sept 2025
Interview
On campus Interview, asked question about my projects and resume in depth. No dsa questions, just grilled on resume and websockets.
Two round, technical focused on my resume and one HR round that focused on getting to know me and normal hr questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you describe AI to childs or old people?