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.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Nov 2015
Interview
1. Ask about my projects
2. An algorithm question. Output the two smallest number in an array
3. A design question. As LRU in leetcode, design data structure to implement the functions. Get prices of company as time. The prices of companies may change any time. Get top 5 company who have more price than others.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Output the two smallest number in an array
2. LRU (as the one in Leetcode)
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