I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Mar 2017
Interview
I applied online and was asked to schedule a technical phone interview. The phone screen was 1 hour long and was on hackerrank. It consisted of 1 coding question and 1 design question. Next I was the onsite interviews. It was scheduled almost a month later and was in the NY office. It consisted of 2 technical rounds after which I hear were the HR interviews which I did not proceed to.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the phone screen I was asked to add two numbers in linked lists and return the result as a linked list. The second question was about how I would design a system that stored stock prices.
In the onsite interview, I was asked a little about my projects. The coding question was quite simple - to sort intervals (messed up the sorting part). They discussed in depth the different sorts that could be used, their time complexities, when a particular type of sort would be more beneficial etc. The 2nd technical round was more related to data structures. I was asked to design a hashmap with a worst case retrieval time of O(n).
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.
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