I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sep 2023
Interview
By far, the worst interview experience I've had. The interviewer was a junior software engineer with no interviewing skills. He was cold and uninterested in my skills and experience. He never smiled, didn't know which role I was applying for, or at what stage of the interview I was at. The LeetCode answer was right in front of him. I am disappointed in how immature Bloomberg's interviewing process is. I can't imagine what the company is like internally judging by the quality of the interview process. It's not a culture I'd want to work in.
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