I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2017
Interview
The interview process was pretty elaborate - It started off with a basic HR round, followed by 2 phone interviews which for about an hour each. I was then called for an on-site interview with two different teams which comprised of 2 technical rounds each, after which I was escorted out of the building. The overall process took 3+ months.
While the overall interview experience was good, I was hugely disappointed by the manner in which my rejection was communicated to me. Instead of a detailed email (a constructive feedback/interview analysis would have been appreciated), I received a standard automated rejection email with no personal follow-up from the recruiting team. This left a bitter aftertaste in my mouth!
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