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 a recruiter. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in May 2022
Interview
The interview process was over the phone and a technical assessment through Hackerrank. The conversation was pleasant and the interviewer was easy to talk to. The assessment itself was not too hard but at the same time a little challenging.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me about my past projects and what I worked on and to describe it.
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