I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londra, Inghilterra) in Dec 2023
Interview
An internal recruiter reached out to me, had an initial phone screen with them and gave me a lot of interview prep materials afterwards.
They then asked me to go through their career portal to officially submit my application. After weeks of waiting, I got a rejection letter, so I didn't even make it to the first round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It was an initial screen so they just asked me things about my background.
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