I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jun 2015
Interview
HR contacted me 2 wekes after applying online.
1 hour technical webex interview, 4-5 hours on site interviews, 1 hour each.
2 team members per interview asking dynamic programming, sql and design questions.
The last one was interview with a manager.
You need to write down your answers on a paper or using the whiteboard.
For example:
Given two link lists, return the longest common postfix.
Given a Queue, write a function which every 5 seconds reads a value from the queue.
and many other...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given two link lists, return the longest common postfix.
Given a Queue, write a function which every 5 seconds reads a value from the queue.
and many other
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