I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in June 2015
Interview
I had applied through there website and then got contacted by a recruiter and got asked to determine my availability within the next 3 weeks for a 45 minutes phone interview. The whole interview was done using a shared hacker rank screen
The interviewer was very friendly and helpful
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Languages: Different between Java and C++, garbage collector in java (how it work), static vs dynamic memory allocation
- Data structures: Linked lists, queues, stacks, heap, trees
- OOP: polymorphism, design patterns that I used before
- Algorithms: Sorting algorithms I know and there complexity, how to search for a number in an array (sorted and not sorted cases)
- Coding question: reverse a single linked list
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.
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