I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Nov 2022
Interview
Round 1: General interview (CV, leetcode question) Round 2: Interview day (3x 60 mins interviews) -1 on coding skills and knowledge of data structures and algorithms -next focus on system design. -final one will focus more on your work and academic experience so far
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about my cv and more in-depth questions about my projects (i.e. what I found difficult, what would I change etc.) One leetcode medium question
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.