I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Mar 2020
Interview
I got contacted for an interview through a hackathon that I went to. It was not too bad overall, the technical questions were a bit tricky. The first step was a phone screen with one technical question and some behavioral, the technical problem was not too difficult. Even though I didn't do perfectly and I didn't think my interviewer liked me that much, I moved on to the next round. The second and final round consisted of three technical problems. Two problems I went through with a group of three engineers and the last problem I did with one separate engineer. I got stuck on one that had to do with trees, but the other two I did ok.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What has been your favorite project that you've gotten to work on?
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.