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. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Feb 2008
Interview
On campus interview with 2 interviewers, interview consisted of basic questions relating to data structures and assessing familiarity with unix shell as well as c++. Was asked to write a program related to linked lists.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Parameters for unix shell commands to test fluency in unix shell
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