Aastha Shah

🚀 Interview Experience At BNY Mellon

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1. 🏢 Company & Role

• Company: BNY Mellon
• Role: SDE Intern
• Batch/Year of Graduation: 2026
• Branch: CS

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2. 📅 Application Process

• **How did you apply?**Test link was provided to all students.

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3. 💬 Interview Rounds

Round 1: Online Assessment

• Type: Coding
• Description: 4 DSA questions were to be solved.
• Difficulty Level: The difficulty level of questions ranged from Easy, Medium, Hard.
• Your Experience: Easy and medium level questions were based on arrays, hashmaps and strings. Hard level question was based on graphs.

Round 2: Technical Interview (Online)

• Type: Coding
• Description: This interview round was for 1 hour where they basically wanted to test core understanding on Data Structures and Algorithms.

• Initial 15 minutes were MCQ based questions covering concepts time complexities, reasoning on which data structure should be used for a particular scenario and justify, etc.

There was hands on coding for 45 minutes. In total there 5 questions and we had to solve maximum that could be solved in the time limit. The questions had to be solved in order as they were extended question of the previous one.

• Difficulty Level: Difficulty ranged from easy, medium , hard as the questions progressed.

HR Interview:

• Type: HR
• Description: This round was more resume based and the project that I had on. Later behavioral questions were asked and one DBMS query was asked.

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Good Luck, and Remember: Stay Confident! 😎