M&T Bank Software Engineer Interview Questions
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M&T Bank
Software Engineer
Entry Average Neutral experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Coding
The interview process was extremely long. It started with a recruiter phone screening, followed by a behavioral phone interview with another HR person. Then, there was a call with some senior software engineers where programming questions were asked. I was scheduled for another interview with SWEs (all remote) but I accepted an offer elsewhere and cancelled it. I'm not sure if that would have been the final round. This was in early 2020, before the pandemic, when I was finishing my undergraduate studies.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you explain what class inheritance is in Java?
M&T Bank
Software Engineer
Senior Average Negative experience No offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Coding
Applied via LinkedIn and got a call from the recruiter to set up some time for the HR round. HR went well and got the next round scheduled with the hiring manager. The hiring manager round also went fantastic, the hiring manager asked basic Java questions. Got the final round scheduled after a couple of weeks. It was a whole day remote interview for about 4 hours with 5 people. It appears that the technical round people were prepared to reject. They kept asking bizarre questions. Later on, I was informed via email that they would not be moving forward. No explanation, no feedback, just "we went another way." Asking so much of a candidate in preparation of an interview, and then not even picking up the phone to deliver the news is lazy and disrespectful. Don’t waste your time with such a company.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Can you explain search and sort algorithms?
- What are some basic Java questions?
M&T Bank
Software Engineer Intern
Intern Easy Positive experience Accept offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Coding
It was pretty much two rounds. First round was behavioral, just basic stuff like why you wanna work here, tell me about a project, you know, general behavioral questions. The second round was technical, also pretty simple. They basically asked if I knew basic data structures and their O(N) times, like the difference between DFS and BFS, or Arrays vs LinkedList.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Could you tell me what the keyword "this" signifies?
- What is the meaning of the keyword "this"?
M&T Bank Software Engineer Interview Questions
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“Given a number and a digit, find the largest number possible by inserting the digit into the original number. (Leetcode style question)”
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Read reports →“Can you explain the difference between UNION and UNION ALL?”
Read reports →“Regarding a table with a single column containing comma-separated values, what would be the normalization approach?”
Read reports →“Can you explain what class inheritance is in Java?”
Read report →“Can you explain the distinction between object-oriented programming and functional programming paradigms?”
Read report →“Could you tell me what the keyword "this" signifies?”
Read report →“Could you tell me about the new features in .Net 4.0 compared to previous versions?”
Read report →“If you could alter any aspect of a programming language, what would it be?”
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