The process took 1 day. I interviewed at BlackRock in Oct 2010
Interview
I was interviewed on campus after receiving interview invitation. The interviewer is MD and he talked most of time and I showed my passion to their company.
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.
Interview questions [1]
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you want to work at BlackRock as a software engineer?