BMO Capital Markets Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at BMO Capital Markets.
BMO Capital Markets
Software Engineer
Entry Average Positive experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Coding
The interview was mostly questions about my resume, and they went pretty deep. Then they asked an easy Leetcode question. They also threw in some simple behavioral questions.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- Can you tell me more about your resume?
- Could you solve this Leetcode problem?
- Tell me about a time when...
BMO Capital Markets
Technical Lead
Lead Easy Negative experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral
After an initial phone screen, I had a MS Teams meeting. It felt like they already had a candidate and this interview was just a formality. The interviewer even took a call during our meeting, put me on hold, and when he came back, he seemed completely disinterested, like something else was on his mind. Really unprofessional.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- Can you explain the differences between Sets like HashSet and TreeSet, specifically regarding their time complexities, such as O(1) versus O(logn)?
- Describe how you would have built the project you've been working on recently, but using only the technologies that were available back in the 90s.
- Regarding concurrent access to collections, what is a ConcurrentModificationException, and is it possible to encounter it even in a single-threaded application?
BMO Capital Markets
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Average Neutral experience Decline offer 1 round
Interview process
Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical
I had one technical interview round with 3 hiring managers. They grilled me on a bunch of stuff: general C++ and Java knowledge, data structures, sorting algorithms, how to design big applications in C++, Java EE7, and building web apps using AngularJS and Bootstrap. This bank is really pushing to get on par with the top three banks tech-wise and wants to pull in local IT talent. They're looking for experienced folks but are offering pay that's lower than the industry average.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Could you write pseudocode to describe how a binary search tree's bidirectional iterator behaves?
BMO Capital Markets Software Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from BMO Capital Markets interview reports.
“Regarding concurrent access to collections, what is a ConcurrentModificationException, and is it possible to encounter it even in a single-threaded application?”
Read reports →“Could you write pseudocode to describe how a binary search tree's bidirectional iterator behaves?”
Read reports →“Can you explain the differences between Sets like HashSet and TreeSet, specifically regarding their time complexities, such as O(1) versus O(logn)?”
Read reports →“Could you solve this Leetcode problem?”
Read reports →“Describe how you would have built the project you've been working on recently, but using only the technologies that were available back in the 90s.”
Read report →“What led you to choose BMO over other tech giants like Apple or Google?”
Read report →“Could you explain your decision to join BMO?”
Read report →“Tell me about a time when...”
Read report →“Can you tell me more about your resume?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 5 BMO Capital Markets interview reports.