I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at BlackRock in Oct 2015
Interview
I first had a short phone call with a recruiter from the company. After that I was scheduled for an hour long tech screen, where I was given a coder pad link, and given some problems to solve. I was able to code all solutions, and test them. They were all correct and all ran very efficiently. After the coding portion was done, I was giving the opportunity to ask the engineer interviewing me questions about the company. Given how well I did on the tech screen, I was expecting to be moving forward in the interview process, however I was surprised the next day to find out I would not be moving forward in the process. As I was surprised by this result, I sent the recruiter and the engineer emails asking for feed back, as I know I did well on the tech screen. Neither the engineer, nor the recruiter even bothered to respond. After sending a second email, I still wasn't given any feed back. The only email I got, was the automated email saying I wasn't a good fit. I found this to be very unprofessional and frankly feel like FutureAdvisor did nothing more than waste my time.
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?