Hackerrank, 3 sections, all very easy. I applied for a fullstack position, which included Angular, so one of the questions was angular based, the rest were not I do not know angular. If you do a basic quickstart tutorial on angular before the interview, you should be able to figure out the angular based challenge, without much issue.
This moved on to a 1 on 1 conversation with a BNY dev.
My interviewer was absolutely incomprehensible. I have worked closely with coworkers with strong french, russian, spanish and indian accents. I generally do not have issues with understanding people with thick accents. In this interview, the largest challenge was understanding what was being said.
He spoke very fast, and would swap topics erratically. At times, I had no idea if he was asking a new question or was critiquing my answer for my last question. He would continue talking and I would try to hang on to the topic, then ask the question I thought was being asked back to the interviewer. I would have to disregard some garbled details mid sentence and hope I understood the gist of it.
After the interview, I left the room I was interviewing in and spoke to the people who were listening in from the other room. Nobody understood a single question asked. These are all software engineers that have worked in industry for years.
The topics were java and general programming concepts. I don't believe we went over my coding challenge solutions, like other interviews posted here state.
I have a feeling that I just got unlucky with my interviewer, but I do want to highlight the possibility that this type of interview may happen to you. In this case, I strongly suggest simply asking the interviewer to slow down.