I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Bank of America (Gurgaon, Haryana) in May 2018
Interview
I applied for Infosphere Streams Developer(Big Data) . It was 4 round process:
1. Technical discussion : Over telephone with some questions on basic aptitude, SQL, Shell scripting.
2. LOB discussion: Was asked to join conference call with one guy from India and another from US. They asked me about my project , role, achievements .The discussion was over in 30 minutes but I think for the position of Developer they were looking for Architect.
3. Managerial: This round I could not attend as I was rejected in previous one although it was scheduled the next day.So, if they schedule 3rd round without looking at feedback of 2nd(because 2nd happened after scheduling 3rd one), don't be too happy.
4. HR : This was supposed to be salary discussion round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe your project, what all tools you used, what was your role.What was the one thing you did in your project for which you are really proud?
This was laughably bad. I would generally implore you to stay away as a software engineer.
BoA is trying to recruit top tech talent from the West Coast, but they have people from London calling you and because of the time difference you have to have the call at 8AM.
Ah yes, screw coffee, getting a rapid fire of Java Trivia from an irked British man is how I wake up!
Somehow I can be working at one of the biggest top tech companies in the world, get onsites at Google/Facebook/Microsoft easy, yet I get filtered out right away by some trivia questions.
Clarification: I am not mad that I didn't know the questions. I promise I am putting most of my ego aside for this. A lot of these Midwest style interview questions are the same things asked over and over, so this won't take more than a couple of weeks of prep for me to memorize.
And that's why I'm mad: that talent is being filtered by these trivia questions that you don't use in production and that just take 2 weeks of rote learning to master and that's what makes a "good engineer", that coding style questions at least give you a vehicle to communicate and use the fundamentals you've learned/memorized and none of that is being used here, and that BoA has the audacity to be using these questions in 2018, provide no other means for a phone screen then a grainy 8AM phone call from across the pond, and wants to attract tech talent and market themselves as a top shop for that.
Pathetic.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Bank of America (Bukit Merah Estate) in Jan 2017
Interview
Not too difficult. The first round on tech issues from different levels. The second round on mgmt and HR and basic issues were asked. The interviewers were nice. The time was not long.