I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2020
Interview
- Online assessment
-Phone Technical Interview
- 2 Technical Interview over a skype platform
- HR round
-Senior Engineer Round
Overall it was a great experience. I felt that the people who interviewed me were really chill and had worked on some interesting projects at Bloomberg. I got an offer from a FANG company as well but decided to go with Bloomberg
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Study Cracking the coding interview and do all the chapter questions and then the medium and hard ones.
Chat with alumni in the career fair
R1: two lc problems ( bfs + lru )
R2: system design
R3: behavior question
R4: EM asked some questions about the projects on my resume
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The challenges I've faced in my projects and how did I solve the problems
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
I've only done the first round so far. It was 10 minutes of resume diving and behavioral, and then 50 minute technical. They asked easy/medium leetcode question. This was an online interview done over zoom.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Identify a 'coolstring' which has the same frequency of every character.
The entire process was a bit chaotic, I spent a bit of time going back a fourth with my recruiter to schedule the interview by the time i was able to i believe they had already moved forward with a different candidate. My interviewer ended the interview early and had no interest in me at all.