Bank of America interview notes, page 1 of 5

“Felt okay walking through the conceptual side, matrix factorization into U, sigma, V transpose, geometric intuition and all that.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bank of America, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew this type of puzzle but blanked on the clean setup for a second.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bank of America, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to the sample variance and then had to backtrack when they asked about bias.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bank of America, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This looked manageable at first glance and then I started thinking about the edge cases.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Bank of America, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to counting: 36 total outcomes, 6 are ties (1-1, 2-2, etc.), so 30 outcomes where they differ.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bank of America, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This was the part I was least prepared for.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Bank of America, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one tripped me up more than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Bank of America, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The greedy insight is pretty straightforward once you see it: sort letters by frequency descending, then assign the highest beauty values to the most frequent ones.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Bank of America, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic DP problem but I still fumbled the recurrence for a second.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bank of America, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Completely blanked on the right methods.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Bank of America, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.