Bank of America Securities Associate Interview Questions and Answers

Topic: Online vs Offline Education.

They gave us 8 coding problems and instructed us to solve 5 within a time limit of 1 hour and 30 minutes; all problems were from the easy and medium on LeetCode.

Q1. Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA), time complexity, and the explanation of code written during the coding round.
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Q2. Question from the Core java.
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Q1. In-depth question from DSA like implement linked-list and stack, questions from Tree and linear and binary search.
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Q2. Explanation of college projects and questions from resume.
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Q1. Simple HR questions.
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Quantitative aptitude test, General knowledge questions

Q1. Previous job role, general questions.
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Q1. What do you know about capital markets?
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Capital markets refer to the financial markets where long-term securities such as stocks and bonds are traded.
• Capital markets are where companies and governments raise funds by issuing stocks and bonds

• Investors buy and sell securities in the capital markets

• Capital markets are regulated by government agencies such as the SEC in the US

• Examples of capital markets include the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ
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Q1. How you will work when you have targets?
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I prioritize tasks and create a plan to achieve targets efficiently.
• I break down the target into smaller achievable goals

• I prioritize tasks based on their importance and urgency

• I create a plan with deadlines and milestones

• I regularly track progress and make adjustments if necessary
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There was basic GD topic

Q1. Google form was shared in which 15 questions were there and 3 were apti questions (work ,time ,speed) and others were from java programming and the time given was 2 hours.
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Q1. In this only you will be asked theoretical questions like DBMS, JAVA, Programming, Your Project for programming he will ask only logic and will not ask you to code.
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Q1. Count the number of words and their frequency
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Count the number of words and their frequency
• Split the given text into words using whitespace as delimiter

• Create a dictionary to store the word frequency

• Iterate through each word and update the frequency in the dictionary

• Return the dictionary with word frequency
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Q2. Count frequency of characters.
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Count the frequency of characters in a given string.
• Iterate through the string and use a hash map to store the count of each character.

• Initialize the count of each character to 0 and increment it as you encounter the character.

• Finally, iterate through the hash map to get the frequency of each character.
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Q3. Reversing the array
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Reverses an array of strings
• Use a loop to iterate through half of the array

• Swap the elements at the current index with the corresponding element from the end of the array
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Q4. Implementing the comparator function for sorting
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Implementing the comparator function for sorting an array of strings.
• Use the built-in sort() function in most programming languages.

• Define a custom comparator function that compares two strings.

• Return a negative value if the first string should come before the second, a positive value if it should come after, and 0 if they are equal.

• Example: ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry'] can be sorted in alphabetical order using the co
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