I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg in June 2012
Interview
It started off with my education background: described my graduate work in past years and what languages that are used frequently. Since the position is mainly C++ developer, so they asked me simple C++ questions. The questions are not hard, but the interviewer's side were pretty noisy and they seemed a bit impatient during the process. Sometimes we didnt hear well and I started panic and rush for the answers without detail checks.
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