I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londres, Angleterre) in Jan 2017
Interview
Phone interview and Face to Face, Rudimentary questions, the interview based on the knowledge of specific part of full stack. Do you know Web API ?
If you make a silly mistake of using NUnit and have no knowledge of Visual Studio test you are out. Frankly felt like a stupid person of the interview, I cannot spent my future on writing facade ( web api) on somebody else code. Glad that I am not joining the company. :)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find consecutive occurrence of input using Web API
Terrible communication. Got passed between 3 different recruiters all of whom gave specific dates for updates and blew past them. Descriptions of what would be covered in the interviews are wholly inaccurate (don’t bother reading the PDF they sent to “prep” you, almost none of it came up in any of the 3 interviews I did with them.)
Interviewers themselves were decent but clearly had exact “right” answers they were looking for. What’s the point of a leetcode question where there’s only one way to implement it? What’s the point of a system design interview where you’re having a candidate parse through a complex system that they clearly already know everything about and are just looking for 1-2 EXACT modifications to check off their boxes? Was there even a right answer? I genuinely don’t know what this company was looking for. Waste of time, waste of effort, waste of resources. Avoid, avoid, avoid
Interviewed with two separate teams. Coding rounds. Leet code style question. The interview went on for 1 hr. Waiting for the next steps. The seem to like link lists and arrays