I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jul 2017
Interview
-2 Phone Screens, including coding and problem solving
-F2F interview ( 2 rounds, 2 interviewer each)
Sailed through 2 phone screens which were harder than in-person, was let go after 2nd round in-person. No courtesy of feedback, received automated response saying I am not being considered for position. The reason I am writing is I thought I excelled in in-person interview answering all questions to the fullest demonstrating my thinking process as well considering all edge cases and reached to the answers. May be I was not match for position or vice-versa but they needs to at least have courtesy of constructive feedback assuming time and effort we put in.
Note for future candidate: If position is requires C++ and if you are Java person, DON"T APPLY!!! They do not understand JAVA API, as answering questions in Java backfires!
First round was with HR, who were helpful and transparent around details including process, salary range and job expectations. Had a second-round technical screen for one hour. Started with questions around experience followed by a coding problem. I found it challenging but the interviewers were polite, helpful and fair. Unfortunately did not make it through to the virtual onsite, but the process was fair and appropriate to the role.
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