BlackRock Program Analyst interview questions

Telephonic Round - a. What sort of projects I had worked on? My roles and responsibilities in those projects. Interviewer probed in detail on what I had done in my very first project. b. Basic Java. c. One question on how I would implement my own hashcode() method. The question made no sense and I politely declined. d. Patterns e. Basic Spring. Written test - 1. Draw a pattern of stars. 2. Some SQL writing that needed some basic joins 3. One more easy Java program, I can't recollect. F2F Technical - All basic Java, Spring, etc. Detailed probing on my current project. Another F2F technical (interviewer in NYC)- This round covered basic Java, and other technical bits from my resume. All very easy. Written test - Design a program to select employees from a database based on various attributes. Enable some caching mechanism. F2F techincal with a panel - Same as above. Managerial - Whats my current project about? Roles and responsiblites, etc. HR discussion - Was briefed on how their compensation is structured. Was asked - why am I eager to join BlackRock? Was offered more than what I asked for.

Four phone interview screening. Talk about your background and working experiences before. Then skill tests about regression analysis. Case studies with two senior statistician