I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Apr 2017
Interview
(Phone interview) The interview was good, interviewer is friendly and calm. He started of with an introduction and questions like why bloomberg about my background and resume then with coding questions. At the end he gave me a chance to ask my questions about the company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
write a function to check if two strings are substrings of each other (either first is substring of second or vice versa).
write a function to check if two strings are anagrams of each other. The interview was 45 minutes and we didn't have time to code the seconds question so i discussed the two solutions and analyzed their time and space complexities.
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.