I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Nov 2020
Interview
Definitely pretty frustrated with my experience. I went through two 45 minute technical phone screens, an HR round, and a final round with a hiring manager. The phone screens were both LC mediums, final round was mostly behavioral with a LC easy that we did in 5-10 minutes. I felt my final round went great and was super excited afterwards.
Each step of the way my recruiter introduced significant delays between rounds, sometimes two weeks or longer and over a week to hear back. Still haven't heard back from my final round after over two weeks despite the recruiter knowing I had a deadline [from a company I had a final round with AFTER my Bloomberg final round]. Recruiter promised to get back before the deadline but did not deliver and remains unresponsive
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked two LC mediums within the top 10 most common Bloomberg LC questions
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.