I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2018
Interview
First did a technical phone interview, for which the interviewer was 15 minutes late. A week later was contacted about an onsite which I had moved up to the same week due to other deadlines. Had two technical interviews, with two engineers in each. Overall they seemed really low energy and not enthusiastic about their jobs/work at all. Was given a measly lunch in between interviews but not enough time to finish it, also we were expected to just eat alone in the interview room. After the techicals they said they wanted two more interviews, one with HR and one with a senior engineer. HR just asked standard behavioral stuff, and 'why bloomberg.' Senior engineer was over video call but just standard resume stuff. At the end he asked if there was anything that would stop me from acceping an offer. Afterwards was immediately asked to leave with no tour given even though they had said one would be given.
Fair, from leetcode 150, as long as you grind leetcode would be good. First round was one question. Second round another tech question, if you don’t pass you don’t go to the next interview for super day
Chat with alumni in the career fair
R1: two lc problems ( bfs + lru )
R2: system design
R3: behavior question
R4: EM asked some questions about the projects on my resume
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The challenges I've faced in my projects and how did I solve the problems
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
I've only done the first round so far. It was 10 minutes of resume diving and behavioral, and then 50 minute technical. They asked easy/medium leetcode question. This was an online interview done over zoom.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Identify a 'coolstring' which has the same frequency of every character.