Overall, it was a positive and professional interview experience, though the interviewer was on the stricter side. Unfortunately, I was dealing with an illness and wasn't able to prepare as thoroughly as I wanted to, which left me feeling a bit off throughout the conversation. Despite not feeling my best and facing a tough interviewer, the process was well-structured.
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Sep 2015
Interview
It was 3 interviews. The first one was phone interview, it was pretty easy one. The second interview was on Skype and it was a way tougher. The final round was in the office of Bloomberg.
I was happy about the process and I hadn't expected that I will not receive an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In phone interview they asked me firstly about myself, and why would I want to join Bloomberg.
Then they began to ask me some knowledge questions in Java mainly.
At the end I was asked to implement an easy question:
Given an array of real numbers, find the average of all the numbers except the minimum and maximum.
Fairly simple. Phone call then onsite. For onsite it was 10 min office tour follow by 1 hr interview then 1 hours system design and 30 mins manager interview. Interviewers were nice and the recruiter was accommodating.
5 rounds first 3 being leetcode coding ones and the last 2 being behavioral. The first three are the hardest asking mainly taggeed questions and the rest are not that bad