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 through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Boston, MA) in Mar 2015
Interview
Got a call back for a technical interview after speaking with the company at my school's career fair. I met with two employees in a small room in my school's engineering department. They went straight to technical questions. The atmosphere felt pretty intense/nerve-racking so I definitely recommend arriving prepared and confident.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked questions about algorithmic complexity (for example, the advantages/disadvantages between vectors and lists) and then gave me coding challenges to solve on the spot (for example, write a function to sum up the digits in a number).
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