I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at BlackRock (London, England) in Jul 2014
Interview
The interview process was quite long. One hour phone interview of competency questions and an hour long face to face scenario based interview with my manager. A separate hour interview with a key technology stakeholder and an hour interview with my team director.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give an example of when you've had to work as part of a team to reach a common goal.
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?