I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Dec 2015
Interview
It was a phone interview. The interviewer was working from home and his phone was not working properly so I had difficulty hearing him in parts. Then he began asking me questions about my resume. It looked like he hadn't even glanced it cos he said "I hope you know we are looking for c++ developers" whereas I'm a c#.net developer. Then he gave me a coding interview on screen that we both shared. It was a modified and complex version of binary search and i began that first but realized i wouldn't be able to finish because it was a complicated question so i needed to think through it, so instead i rubbed that and gave a basic one, solved it n improvised it. He accepted it but asked me why i didn't do binary search. i explained the logic i would use if i had to optimize it further with binary search. I think for a total time of 15 mins to code, it was a fairly long thought provoking coding question.
Terrible communication. Got passed between 3 different recruiters all of whom gave specific dates for updates and blew past them. Descriptions of what would be covered in the interviews are wholly inaccurate (don’t bother reading the PDF they sent to “prep” you, almost none of it came up in any of the 3 interviews I did with them.)
Interviewers themselves were decent but clearly had exact “right” answers they were looking for. What’s the point of a leetcode question where there’s only one way to implement it? What’s the point of a system design interview where you’re having a candidate parse through a complex system that they clearly already know everything about and are just looking for 1-2 EXACT modifications to check off their boxes? Was there even a right answer? I genuinely don’t know what this company was looking for. Waste of time, waste of effort, waste of resources. Avoid, avoid, avoid
Interviewed with two separate teams. Coding rounds. Leet code style question. The interview went on for 1 hr. Waiting for the next steps. The seem to like link lists and arrays