I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Sep 2014
Interview
A recruiter contacted me and we set up a phone interview.
The interviewer called me up half an hour late, and started off with an "I understand I'm late calling you, but it would be really helpful to me if we just do this now anyway". I should've cut him off then and rescheduled.
During the technical questions, the interviewer kept cutting me off and laughing. He was extremely nasty and condescending, saying things like "I'm sure you're smart and all, but I just can't understand why you think that's a good answer," and "You didn't get that, maybe google a little more next time." When I asked him questions, he said things like "I'm sorry, I just don't understand why you'd ask me something like that." I'm happy I didn't get an offer for an in-person if that's the type of person I'd be working with.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Rearrange the elements of an array so that all zeroes are at the end of the array, while preserving the ordering of the nonzero elements.
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