I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jul 2018
Interview
Applied online and got a recruiter mail the next day to schedule 60min technical phone interview.
The day of the phone interview, my interviewer was punctual, and very helpful throughout the session. He gave me a chance to introduce myself and then asked a coding question.
I chose to answer in Python and took few iterations to solve the problem. He then asked me to explain verbally how I would solve some extensions to the same problem.
When he concluded technical questions, he answered all my questions and seemed like a great guy to work with. All in all, it was a good experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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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