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      Software Engineer Interview

      15 Nov 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2015

      Interview

      Overview: Two phone interviews using HackerRank to solve algorithm problems. Then three on-site interviews, two where you need to solve more algorithm problems using pencil and paper and a third interview that is system design oriented. Then they take you out to lunch and if you are lucky you come back to talk to HR. For on-site coding they give you small 5x8" sheets of paper. It gives you very little room to write code and correct mistakes. A whiteboard would be much better for coding and facilitating conversation. Even better would be to use HackerRank for the on-site interview as well as the phone interview. The first person went fine. I solved two problems and then started on a third when time ran out. The second person was breathing down my neck the whole time. I coded the first problem and started working on test cases to make sure the code was correct He demanded that I give him my code even though I told him that I wanted to run through some test cases. Of course he found problems with it. On the second problem he gave me a hint that was incorrect and got me off track. The system design portion of the interview is basically a mind reading exercise. Make sure you pay close attention to anything he says that might give a clue to how he wants to solve the problem. Don't worry about how you would solve the problem yourself. My advice to other candidates: Make sure to practice algorithm-style problem solving as much as possible. Any job experience you might have is completely irrelevant. For example, I have extensive experience in the technologies that were in the title of the job posting. But I wasn't asked any questions about those things. The only thing that matters is that you can solve artificial problems under extremely tight time constraints with someone looking over your shoulder.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Design a stack that has an O(1) max() method.
      4 Answers

      Question 2

      Find the kth largest element in a sorted 2D array (the rows are sorted and the columns are sorted).
      4 Answers
      2

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