I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Nov 2024
Interview
I got matched with two teams after a recruiter reached out on linkedIn. Both were pretty standard phone screen interviews. They went over my resume and asked relevant questions about my experience. Basic Java interview questions mostly. Then they asked 1 leetcode medium coding question. and finally a system design question. Overall the interview was not that difficult but I was fairly underprepared and rusty so I did not advance.
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