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. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Jan 2017
Interview
I apply online for the position and get an email about 10 days later. The HR give me some time options to choose for the phone interview. During the phone interview, the man first asked me some behavior question then asked me some basic data structures and the time complexity and how to implement the data structure. Then we do an algorithm problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Binary tree basics. Heap basics. Binary tree traverse and Iterator.
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