| Trade desk support /java developer |
This is one company which gave me my worst experience in job searching
or interviewing. I was called by the company twice and both times by
independant contractors which are vendors to Bank of America in providing
human resources. First time the contractor was Moss search Ltd and the
postion was trade desk developer and I had first interview with guy
( probably a trader/manager) and although I was nervous (
he definitely sounded a nice guy and seemed to know his stuff ) Second
interview was following friday( 1 wk later) by a guy (
overall boss of the group and a fairly reasonably guy-in fact he
impressed me the most) They came back and said they wanted to test my
technical skills the following week and even though it seemed to take
forever I agreed. This time I had to talk to two guys , one was a
chinese guy( sorry I can't recall the name ) and even though I was told
it was a technical interview , he asked me pretty silly questions and in
the end told me he was just checking my personality. It felt weird but
the next guy was worse.( and it was more weird because both the guys
were supposed to interview me together). I think the next guy's name was
Sunil Challa and he seemed as if he was getting his first chance at
interviewing someone.Throughout the period when I was telling him how
our earlier project was designed he seemed to not understand anything
and criticized all the things repeatedly , in fact at one point he
shouted in the meeting and suggested that I was delaying him for his
train to his home somewhere in suburbs.In the end he had some childish
questions from some book ( or somebody had asked him in his first
interview of java). It was pretty surprising to be interviewed by such
seemingly junior level folks and to be asked syntax details for a
position which apparently required more finance knowledge than technical.
Anyway next day however hard I tried to convince a guy of Moss
research group to take up the case with Bank of America ( after they had
said no) but he said to let go and I let it go.
After about a month through another contractor they called me for a
first round of interviews and I talked to 4 people (all of the positions
they wanted to consider
me were for his boss's group -can't recall his name) infact one of the
person took me to same room where I had spoken to in prvious
case. After almost like 4-5 hours grilling the next day feedback came
back positive and they wanted me to come back for more interviews but
kept on postponing the dates and finally after 2 more weeks of waiting I
had the chance to go there and this time they wanted me to interview
with the whole group almost like a gang rape , they came in one by one
and kept on repeating in a way same questions and showed as if they were
pretty impressed with my java knowledge.Anyway since I had taken leave
from work I told them after 5th guy had talked to me that I could take
no more and I was going , it would be good if they told the results soon.
And...I kept on waiting for almost a month and they still kept on saying
they were deciding...neither no nor yes.
Funny thing is last time it was technical issues this time it was timing
issue....pretty unprofessional way of interviewing especially if it is
under the name of Bank of America.
Finally I decided whatever be the case I am not joining them and I hope
others in their right minds should really find out more. What a time
waste of mine ...first time some junior guy calls the shots for a senior
technical- financial position( almost a technical joke interview) and
second time the similar group like the technial part a lot but can't
make up their mind in more than 6 weeks and 10 people interviewing
me...Wow height of unprofessionalism. Many times I thought I will write
to Bank of America HR professionals and in fact one time I wrote too but
no answer came back.
Anyway that is my bitter experience and as always just a small guy
experience with big company.
Finance- Option valuation,Swaps,yield curve,simplex method
Java-thread synchronization( and repeatedly synchronization by 4 other
guys) ,EJB's ,finalization and some other basic questions
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