I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Apr 2017
Interview
Apply online, telephonic screen sharing tech interview, onsite interviews.
After clearing telephonic tech interview was invited for onsite interview.
One day before the interview got a mail from recruiter that my interview was cancelled because the people who were supposed to be interviewing me were out of country. The recruiter asked for another dates. I wasted one holiday of mine as I already informed my current employer about time off with some reason. Recruiter SHOULD have informed me earlier, not only her fault but hiring process is flawed.
For the new date recruiter informed me that I'll be interviewing for two teams and asked me book the entire day for them. Ended up interview only for one team in morning.
Again wasted half of my vacation.
She did not clarify why my interview with CIS team was cancelled for the second time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Telephonic :Basic questions related to Python and some basic coding exercises just to check level of python experience.
Onsite : Meeting room scheduling problem and a question related to prefix trees.
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