I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Nov 2019
Interview
The phone-screening phases were very easy.
After that, they invited me on-site, and after the overhead of preparing the travel permits and securing the Visa, they simply mailed me -after I sent them the visa evidence by one day- saying they are closed for internship positions.
Very RUDE!
Design a Subway system, given a continuous feed of entry time and exit time for every passenger, and then calculate some frequencies and data. (Ex. average trip time between every 2 stations)
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.