I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at BBD (Pune) in Sept 2015
Interview
I got call from recruitment agency for assessment test into BBD. They schedule my test within 2 days and I gave test on laptop at Pune(India) location. There are total 6 programs need to run on given laptop.
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Question 1
1. convert given string as per requirement. abc123 need to be convert 012onetwothree
2. sort given array
3. find given number into given array
4. read file and write content into other file using multithreading
5. prove stringbuffer is better than string in terms of performance and memory
6. read XML file and convert its values into collection list.
Great experience friendly interviewers with passion and understanding of people from different backgrounds and willingness to let you express your knowledge in a way you understand them not the text book way.
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Question 1
Take me through your experience as a Java developer
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at BBD (Johannesburg) in Oct 2017
Interview
I was contacted by a lady from BBD and the first round was a Hackerrank test with mostly easy and straightforward questions. The test is long though, you will have to spend about 2.5hrs on it. After the test, I got an interview invite at one of their clients offices, Standard Bank, in Johannesburg CBD. I found this to be quite odd. The interview was done in a cafe which was rather noisy as it was lunch time. I found this to be a horrible experience. I think the idea was to have a casual chat about my experience, but I was not at ease because of the venue. The interview was more of them trying to understand my previous experience and technologies I like. 2 days later, I got an email saying they wouldn't be making an offer as they had found better candidates and that they wouldn't be providing feedback as they had been interviewing a lot of candidates.
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Question 1
Hackerrank test had core Java questions that any solid developer would sail through