I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jul 2020
Interview
Overall the process was okay. First phone interview was rescheduled twice on part of the interviewer. I passed all the phone and on-site rounds. Got rejected after the final engineering manager round. I'm convinced I got discriminated against because the interviewer did not express any discontent at any point in the interview with my solution, in fact he said he thought it was good. Recruiter divulged a lot of feedback after the rejection because he felt bad for me, probably too much on his part since he told me it was the manager's choice to reject and that he wasn't even entirely sure what the reason was apart from a general "technical skills".
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Delete node from linked list
BFS on nodes in a matrix
Return deepest level of string nested in parentheses
Design tic-tac-toe
Manager interview was top k stocks
I was reached out by the recruiter directly through LinkedIn. I was asked one medium and one hard LeetCode-style question, with a few follow-ups. It started with a general introduction.
5 rounds they are all bloomberg tagged question i didn’t pass em round went deep in tour resume another leetcode question and q&a at the end. In retrospect, i thought I did well but maybe their bar this year is high.
5 rounds 3 tech 1 hr 1 em - they asked a couple leetcode mediums and I know others have gotten some hards I think you should prep the leetcode tagged they are asked a lot