Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at BNY with 2.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 25% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 2 days to get hired, when considering 8 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at BNY overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at BNY as a Senior Software Engineer according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Drug test: 17%
Skills test: 17%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at BNY (New York, NY)
Interview
The interview process was a couple hours of different guys talking to me in a very general way about what they do and what I'll be doing. There were almost no technical questions unlike everywhere else I interviewed in NYC, from startups to corporations. This was mostly because nobody who interviewed me had worked before with the technologies (modern web frameworks) they were asking me to use.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
An example of something I was asked from a design challenge perspective is how would I redesign a banking page to encourage user interaction.
I applied online. I interviewed at BNY (Pune) in Jan 2026
Interview
In this AI era, they are still looking for candidates to know the exact syntax and are conducting interviews as if it were 2018. There was zero collaboration during the interview — it felt more like a viva.
The interviewer joined 15 minutes late, gave no introduction, kept the camera off, and asked me to code decorators for a login system. Even after I explained the approach clearly, he insisted on the exact syntax.
An interview often reflects the inner culture of a company.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at BNY (Pune)
Interview
interview had 1 codding round, L1 round , L2 round and final manger round.
interview had 1 codding round, L1 round , L2 round and final manger round.
interview had 1 codding round, L1 round , L2 round and final manger round.
3 rounds with hacker rank test followed by managerial round followed by HR round. Hacker rank test was having 4 different programs. I got offer letter after that but it took 1 month to complete the whole process.