I interviewed in Edinburgh and the questions were mainly on Linux terminal commands and SQL. There were two technical interviews, a team exercise and a personal skills interview. The interviewers were friendly and the atmosphere was very relaxed.
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Question 1
What would you do if a family member would come to you and ask you for advice on buying a new computer?
Was pretty straight forward, very technical and business oriented. Focus heavily on current events as well as business acumen to translate to a technology front. With simple preparation and due diligence beforehand it should be fine.
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Question 1
What is one market mover currently happening that interests you and postulate what markets it is and will impact?
Technical Questions as well as a few short free response questions. Pretty quick interview, all questions were done online. Sometimes can record the answers. Very quick and easy process for the first step.
Included a recorded interview answering one of their questions with infinite retries, and a leetcode medium coding challenge that was on the easier side. There was no time limit on the coding challenge.
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Question 1
Why do you want to work at BlackRock as a software engineer?