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 university. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Sept 2013
Interview
I applied through college career website. The first round was a technical interview. The interviewer was nice, and would guide you through the questions. He at first went through my resume and asked about my past experience and the project that I am working on. After that was a technical question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The question he asked was how to reverse the string by words.
For example: "This is a car" -> "car a is This"
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