I recently shared compensation details for my offer and here is the interview experience.
Company:BNY Mellon
Status:Accepted
Qualification: 2023 grad, Top Tier-2 college
Position : Software Developer
Location : Pune/Chennai
Date of offer : August 2022
Online coding assessment: This round has 4 coding problems and it is taken on hackerrank platform.Questions were 1-easy,2-medium and 1 hard.
I solved all of them with hard question passing 5/15 test cases.
People who solved 1-easy 1-medium and 1-medium partial also got selected for interviews.
Interview
Round 1:(Elimination round)-Around 2 pm on next day of coding round.
Taken by : Team leader in BNY
Difficulty level : Easy
Duration of interview : 1 hr 10 minutes.
She gave her intro and asked about mine.I had hackathon project about NLP ,so she asked few questions on NLP and dialogflow.Then in
OOPS:
-Basic inheritance questions,
-Diamond problem-resolving it in cpp
-types of constructors and difference between them.
-effect of access modifiers on constructors.
-standard object slicing question.
I had presented my screen and had written some code on oneNote to explain some topics, she asked for some changes and asked me output.
DBMS:
employee with third highest salary.(Needed a join and then nth highest salary logic.)
DSA-On code pair-You have to execute your code and test it against test cases:
https://leetcode.com/problems/convert-binary-number-in-a-linked-list-to-integer/
The interviewer was very friendly.Got a call for second round after half an hour of first interview.Interview was scheduled at 4,but went to 5 due to technical dificulty on interviewers side.
Round 2:(Elimination round)-5 pm on same day
Taken by : Person with same level as previous interviewer.
Difficulty level : Medium
Duration of interview : 40 minutes.
Started with my introduction and then she directly jumped in Operating systems.
-Basics of memory management,paging,segmentation,fragmentation.
-Some discussion on TLB.
-virtual memory.
She then asked Medium-Hard level DSA question:
You have given one vector of strings, arrange strings in such a order that no two strings with same initials will come consecutively.
I couldnt run my code but the approach was correct and she was okay with that.
This round interviewer was not very friendly and sounded disinterested most of the times.I had very little hopes for next round but I got call for last round after 3 hours of my interview.
Round 3:HR (Final round)-11 pm on same day
Taken by : Manager with long experience in BNY.
Difficulty : Medium
Duration of interview : 30 minutes
Discussion on work done in internship.
HR questions.
-Why do you want to join BNY.
-What is it that you are most proud of.
-Have you inspired anyone fro your village.(follow up to my previous answer.)
-Some standard HR questions.
Puzzle:
there are n people in party.They do handshake with each other exactly once.Find the total number of handshakes.
He asked me if I had any questions for him.I first confirmed if he was from Tech background and then asked 3 questions of which he was very impressed and answered them enthusiastically.
About me : Practicing leetcode from last 4 months.(Other platforms-2 years(total 1000+ questios solved ) ) 5 star on codechef,expert on codeforces.
Question solved on leetcode : 450+, 70+ LC hard, 300+ medium,~100 easy.
Some inspiration :
I have record of failing highest number of interviews in oncampus . It just takes 1 offer to forget all the pain of all other failures.I lost almost everything which made me happy during my journey,A relationship,physical health,mental well-being.But at the end,everything seems to be happened for a reason.Keep hustling, keep practicing.This is just a part of begining.
Hit it till you break it!