bp 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 bp.
bp
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Difficult Positive experience Accept offer 5 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Technical screen Background check Background check
Interview formats
Coding Technical Behavioral
Overall it was a very thorough and good experience with 5 stages in total. The interviewers were really nice to talk to. The first stage was a coding test, followed by a tech review session, then a management interview, and finally a personality test.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Could you please explain the code you submitted?
- Can you walk me through the code you've written?
bp
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Average Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Coding Technical System Design Behavioral
A third party recruiter reached out, and things started off well with both them and the internal recruiter. The interview was scheduled quickly. It had three stages: First, a Coderpad DSA test with medium difficulty coding problems. Second, a technical interview focusing on system design, architecture, and programming concepts, also medium difficulty, which was an interesting discussion. Third, a Hiring Manager interview, which was supposedly a team fitment and cultural fit round. This round involved 50% architectural questions and 50% preset questions the HM read from a document. The first two rounds went really well with engaging conversations. The recruiter gave feedback quickly. However, in the third round, the interviewer seemed disinterested from the beginning and appeared to have already decided to reject me. Despite it being a cultural fit round, I was grilled on architectural questions, but I managed to answer them satisfactorily. Then, the interviewer read some team and culture fit questions, which I also answered. I later suspected the interviewer had personal bias. I wanted to provide feedback to the recruiter, but they ghosted me and didn't respond. It was a really pathetic experience overall. Company leadership should address this and take action against biased individuals and fix the hiring process.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- Discuss System Design, considering functional and non-functional requirements initially, and how to handle increasing complexity during the conversation.
- Solve a brain teaser.
- The interviewer was really amazing and kept the conversation engaging.
bp
Software Developer
Entry Easy Neutral experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Technical screen Recruiter call
Interview formats
Coding Technical Behavioral
The first rounds were technical, involving a coding round with 3 questions focusing on arrays, strings, and DP. After clearing that, candidates moved to interviews, likely segregated into batches. There were two rounds: technical and HR. Although they didn't state a specific hiring number, out of 30 candidates, only 10 proceeded to the HR round, and ultimately 5 were hired. I'd say luck played a significant role.
Confirmed questions5 questions
- What are hashing and collisions?
- Can you solve the anagrams question in DSA?
- Tell me about DBMS.
bp Software Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from bp interview reports.
“Write a program to add two binary numbers, given the input was badly formatted.”
Read reports →“What is the command to delete all data from a table without dropping the table itself?”
Read reports →“Write a function to generate combinations from a list of strings using DFS”
Read reports →“What is the least weighted path in a 2D grid?”
Read reports →“Can you print the count of prime numbers within a given range?”
Read report →“Can you print each route if the route is a cycle/intersection/ok, given x number of routes? No recursion is allowed, so your function should be optimized for performance.”
Read report →“Could you explain how to decode a message where the alphabet has been shifted?”
Read report →“Can you explain how to find the intersection of nodes in a directed graph?”
Read report →“How would you adapt the 'Trapping Rain Water' solution for a 2D array?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
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