I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sep 2014
Interview
I went to the career fair at my university and after answering one technical question for them, then I got scheduled for an on campus interview.
the question at the career fair was reverse a string in C, but it could also be in java, however they gave me C because I said I could do C.
anyways, I went into the interview, first they just ask some basic things about stuff on your resume, then comes the technical questions:
1. given an array of numbers, find the best time to buy and sell that will give you the largest profit,
and that buy has to come before sell.
I did it first time with 2 for loops and just finding the largest difference, but they want it faster, and I screw up on that part since I didn't remember the things that I could use in programming like maps and tree stuff. anyways, the solution was use a map and just map when to buy to when to sell and another map for when to buy to largest difference. so you can easily know when to buy and sell.
2. just some basic stuff on C memory structures like whether the passed in value is at stack or heap type of things.
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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