I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Feb 2025
Interview
A recruiter reached out on LinkedIn and I applied through their careers page. I had one screening interview. It was a mid level DFS question. After that, they asked me to take 2 more technical interviews, one ds & algo and one api design type of question. Then, an interview with TLs where they ask a simple System Design question and a manager interview. The recruiter is in contact with you at all times and it was easy for me to ask my questions.
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