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 online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Mar 2015
Interview
I applied on their website. First round was phone interview including technical questions and general questions like why do you choose Bloomberg.
Second round was a Skype interview, also a technical one. Two interviewers from their team asked about fundamental C++ questions and step-by-step algorithmic problems. Currently I am waiting for the third round which should be onsite interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard dynamic programming problem (shortest path) and things about recursive calls.
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