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Interview experiences · BairesDev
BairesDev Software Engineer interview with weeks of silence
I went through a structured process for the Software Engineer role: an initial contact, a short screening call, a technical test on their platform, and interviews with technical interviewers and a team lead. The process itself felt fairly standard. After I completed everything, though, communication basically went silent. The uncertainty was the hardest part. I waited weeks without an update, eve…
Interview experiences · BairesDev
BairesDev Software Engineer screening in English
After the recruiter reached out, my first conversation was a screening focused on getting a clear picture of my background. The entire conversation was in English and felt more like a structured discussion than a grilling. We covered my listening and speaking, professional experience, key achievements, technical challenges I'd faced, my current job, and my expectations. The conversation was fairl…
Interview experiences · Baker Hughes
Baker Hughes Software Engineer interview: managers, architecture, and team fit
I applied through the careers portal, then spoke with HR by phone about timing and my interest. From there I met senior managers and entered a final-offer path. One technical conversation covered requirements management, sign-off, and system-architecture development with a manager and a principal. Another used questions about the stack and how my current responsibilities matched the job. When I s…
Interview experiences · Baker Hughes
Baker Hughes Software Engineer recorded HireVue and salary-range screen
The recruiter conversation focused heavily on salary expectations, especially whether I would accept the low end of the posted range, instead of fully exploring what the role required. The process then relied on recorded interviews. I completed a one-way HireVue-style screen with a handful of behavioral questions about motivation and STAR examples. A timer started as recording began, so I felt wa…
Interview experiences · Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty Software Engineer interview: graduate assessment day
After the recruiter stage, I attended an on-site graduate-style assessment day. It began with a company introduction, then a short presentation on my dissertation to two staff members, followed by a group problem-solving activity about teamwork and communication. There were behavioral "tell me about a time" questions and some technical discussion of safety protocols. The day seemed to assess comm…
Interview experiences · Balyasny
Balyasny Software Engineer Interview Experience — Eight Rounds, Remote Onsite Interviews, and Slow Feedback
BAM had the longest timeline, from late May to mid-July. As of now, I'm still pending, but I noticed that someone with Singaporean citizenship who interviewed around the same time as me has already been working there for a month. So I've probably been rejected. Writing this up to keep a record. The role was a QD position in one of BAM's Singapore pods, but the actual job description was really fo…
Interview experiences · Bank of America
Bank of America Data Scientist Interview Experience — Hong Kong GQS Summer 2027
Describe a key accomplishment that best illustrates your personal initiative and willingness to push beyond what is required. Discuss a recent trend in the financial markets. Describe a time you solved a complex problem that required a lot of careful analysis on your part. Describe a time when you developed a strong relationship with a teammate or client. Coding 1 — Beautiful Strings: calculate t…
Interview experiences · Bank of America
Bank of America Financial Analyst interview: advisor role-play on Teams
I had a phone interview that turned into an interview on Microsoft Teams. The questions centered on my motivation for the role, including why I wanted to be an advisor, along with a quick tell-me-about-yourself prompt. Near the end, I did a scenario role-play, which made the interview more practical than a purely conversational screen. The process felt supportive, especially on the recruiter side…
Interview experiences · Bank of America
Bank of America Financial Analyst Interview Experience: HireVue scenario prompts
My first step was an online HireVue with behavioral prompts and analytical questions. I had to respond to scenarios as though I were already an employee and decide how I would handle them. That made it less scripted than a simple "tell me about yourself" screen. The process then moved to virtual interviews focused on motivation and my CV. The later round had a similar tone, with personality and b…
Interview experiences · Bank of America
Bank of America Financial Analyst interview: five-person phone panel
The process moved quickly, which still surprised me. I had a five-person panel interview with only a few questions, and I was given time to ask questions too. Because it was at the tail end of COVID, the interview happened by phone instead of in person or by video. It was simple and not very technical. I felt they were mainly checking fit and whether I could stay calm in the format. I received an…
Interview experiences · Bank of America
Bank of America Financial Analyst interview: six-interview virtual superday
After HireVue, I attended a virtual superday about two weeks later. Instead of separate early rounds, I moved almost directly into this condensed format. The superday had roughly six interviews of around 30 minutes each, combining technical and behavioral questions for the healthcare team. The content felt tailored rather than generic finance discussion, and I had to keep switching between techni…
Interview experiences · Bank of America
Bank of America Financial Analyst interview with a high technical bar and networking
The process felt rigorous from the start and needed real preparation. I practiced both behavioral and technical questions, learned about the company itself rather than relying on generic finance talking points, and networked with people at the firm because the path felt competitive. It took longer than I expected to reach later rounds, and the difficulty stayed high throughout. The questions were…
Interview experiences · Bank of America
Bank of America Financial Analyst interview with back-to-back technical and behavioral segments
My schedule was extremely tight and very technical: a technical segment of about 30 minutes followed immediately by a behavioral segment of about 30 minutes. The technical portion covered a lot. I got valuation topics, dividend recap-style questions, and free cash flow, with follow-ups that went into the details. The pace made it clear that they expected thorough accounting knowledge. We worked t…
Interview experiences · Bank of America
Bank of America Financial Analyst interview with five-question sessions
The process felt light from the start. After I was scheduled, I had two back-to-back interviews that took about an hour together. Each was structured around five questions from a prepared list, followed by about five minutes for my own questions. The interviews were straightforward and did not turn into anything tricky or unexpected. I got a clear picture of the role, and it felt like the intervi…
Interview experiences · Bank of America
Bank of America Financial Analyst interview with psychometric testing and HireVue
My journey started with an application, a resume submission, and region-specific psychometric testing. After that, I completed an asynchronous HireVue with behavioral questions, personal motivation, and some basic commercial awareness. If I passed that stage, the next step was a first-round interview with bankers. That conversation focused heavily on walking through my resume and testing fundamen…
Interview experiences · Bank Of America Merrill Lynch
Bank Of America Merrill Lynch Financial Analyst market leader and client role-play
After a recruiter call, I waited about a week for a market-leader conversation and then had a final meeting with a regional executive. The structure was consistent, with the recruiter and leadership each pressure-testing my fit. The questions centered on personality: why I wanted the role, how work ethic appeared in my prior experience, what I thought the job involved, and how my background match…
Interview experiences
Bay Area Semiconductor Company Interview Experience — Seven-Round Analog/RF Onsite, No Offer
This was at a major semiconductor company in the Bay Area. I submitted my resume and the hiring manager reached out to me pretty quickly, and we scheduled a 45-minute phone interview. It mainly covered RF system questions — things like the difference between homodyne and heterodyne, and some matching and noise questions. The second round was onsite, seven interviews total. The first person asked…
Interview experiences · BCG
BCG Consultant Interview Experience: Switching from fit to interviewee-led cases
After recruiter outreach, I went through a bridge stage that led to a final-round invitation. The final stretch included an online technical assessment and case interviews: first one case, then two cases back to back. Behavioral questions filled the first half, while the case discussion took over in the second. The process was more demanding than it looked. I had to switch quickly from fit questi…
Interview experiences · BCG
BCG Data Scientist Interview Experience: repeated technical and business cases
After an HR screen, I completed an online coding and assessment stage before a series of technical rounds with live case work. The pattern kept returning to coding checks and data-science cases rather than general consulting questions alone. The final stretch combined multiple technical cases with PEI and MBB-style business-case thinking applied to data science. Each interviewer appeared to test…
Interview experiences · BCG
BCG Senior+ Forward Deploy Engineer Interview Experience — An Unweighted Graph Turned Weighted
A friend referred me for a Senior Forward Deploy Engineer role. The interviewer was very nice. The first 30 minutes were a deep dive into my projects, with many questions related to AI. The last 30 minutes were a live coding problem: find the shortest path in an unweighted graph represented by an adjacency matrix. Given the adjacency matrix of a connected, undirected graph with no loops or multip…
Interview experiences · Boston Consulting Group
BCG X Forward Deployed AI Engineer Interview Experience — Five Behavioral Questions in a One-Way Video Interview
BCG X Forward Deployed AI Engineer, one-way video interview. These were the five questions, that's it. Prep time is unlimited, and you get two recording attempts. Describe your understanding of BCG X in 3-5 sentences (who we are, what we do etc.) and what motivated you to apply. Describe the last analytical tool you taught yourself, why you chose it, how you taught yourself. Please tell me about…
Interview experiences · BD
BD Software Engineer Interview Experience: delayed panels and no follow-through
I started the process with good intentions, but the lack of coordination became frustrating. I arrived early and waited in the security area while the scheduled interview failed to happen. A text eventually said the hiring manager was on medical leave. Instead of a clear reschedule, another manager interviewed me after a long wait. I followed up expecting at least an acknowledgment, but I receive…
Interview experiences · BD
BD Software Engineer interview: resume, fit, and technical conversations
After I applied, recruiting moved quickly into a phone screen about my background, why I wanted the role, and standard behavioral questions. From there, the process mixed manager conversations with technical evaluation, sometimes with senior engineering input. The interviews kept returning to my resume and projects, along with questions about struggles, failures, and overcoming obstacles. Manager…
Interview experiences · BD
BD Software Engineer interview with easy assessment and in-person logistics
I had a simple process that still felt somewhat inefficient. It began with a fairly easy online assessment, mostly made up of research-and-knowledge questions, followed by an in-person interview. The stages were clear, and it did not feel like a heavy technical gauntlet. In a similar part of the process, I had two interviews: a phone screen followed by an in-person meeting with different people,…