Hello, I had an onsite at BlackRock last week on Wednesday. Across the 4 of the 5 rounds they covered easy lc, java collections, some oo concepts, and design of word count at scale. I did well in these rounds, i.e., answered/solved all the questions/problems. In one of the rounds I was quizzed about jvm and deadlocks and I bombed this round. Right after the interviews, I emailed the recruiter thanking him for arranging everything right from the hackerrank to the onsite, to which he replied, "will be in touch soon". I haven't heard anything since, and kind of know if it was a yes, I would hear back by now. I know I should simply forget about it, take my lessons and move on to others. It was only my 2nd onsite since I started looking. What do you all think? Should I send another email politely asking or simply move on? Thank you.
Amen..move on
BlackRock massively fucking sucks anyway. Move on to better things.
Nice. I probably needed something emphatic like this. Thank you.
I work at blackrock and their HR is terrible. They say they’ll get back to people but 30% of the time they actually do. It’s a shame. It’s a common courtesy to let people know that they will not be advancing. Shame on them honestly.
The recruiters at BlackRock really suck ... mine lowballed me really hard .... and it was my mistake that I took it ... my advice to you is please don’t sit around and wait .... even if they come back it’ll be better if you have a counter offer
Update: they did come back and had me do another round. It was with a senior manager. System Design and some multithreading questions. They initially told me they wouldnt be going ahead but then a week later I get a call that they would like to make an offer but lesser than what I asked. I asked 135k base. They'll call me again next week with the final numbers.
True, it is in my interest to work towards making progress. Thank you.
Dude, I think it's better to move on to better companies. There are many who would want to hire software engineers. I also think you should also email the recruiter and ask him the status. I know it's frustrating to spend the whole day for interviewing at these companies and not receive any reply. Move on and good luck.
Why do you assume the recruiter is a "him"? (It is actually a guy). Thank you though for the kind words.
Is it really important if we say him/her?