Bank of America Software Engineer interview experience

The interview experience was heavily technical and they grilled me based on what was on my resume.

There was a live coding component where I had to write code twice during the interview. They also asked me to recite something from memory once, which threw me off because I was used to explaining and reasoning rather than pulling details cold. The difficulty felt high, and by the end I didn’t feel like I could fully recover from the parts where I got stuck.

I didn’t receive an offer, and my honest reflection is that the interview tested recall and execution under pressure more aggressively