BlackRock Software Engineer interview experience

The whole point was to assess my approach rather than just whether I could land a perfect final answer, and I remember getting to the optimal approach quickly. The interviewer even agreed that I’d hit the right way to think about it.

After that, I didn’t hear anything about next steps for a while. When I followed up, I learned they had already hired someone else for the role, and that was basically the end of the story.

So even though the interview itself went well, the outcome was a quiet rejection. The thing that stuck with me was that I never got much communication beyond the eventual