The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Aug 2023
Interview
Bloomberg wants you to prepare for the technical interview as if you would be interviewing for FAANG. I interviewed for both FAANG and Bloomberg and I can assure you that there is a big difference in terms of approach. In my case they started with a fairly standard algorithmic question, Leetcode easy, then built on that. They essentially probe and try to find a weakness. It's not about solving the problem, it's about solving the problem in the way they want you to solve it(for instance don't do it recursively, do it iteratively). A lot of open ended questions, behavioural questions thrown into the mix, possibly every interview is different. Regardless, there was no feedback, just an automated email notifying you that you failed. The decision for the technical interview takes into account behavioural factors, if they don't like you for whatever reason they will fail you. After all I solved around 90% of the 10 iterations of the problem I was given and they still failed me.
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