Bank of America Software Engineer interview experience

After the initial stages, I did a hands-on coding interview centered on building a small React application. The focus was on state management: I had to show that I could handle changes predictably, wire the UI up to data, and implement requirements like search and pagination rather than just making a static page. The session also included an iteration where they wanted state management improvements as part of how I reasoned through the problem.

Once that was done, the next round shifted to systems design on a whiteboard. I talked through techniques like caching and load balancing, and it was