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.
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2009
Interview
The Interview slot is for 45 minutes. There were 2 people in the panel, and then it started with a round of self introduction. Once thats done, I was asked to speak in detail of the project I had worked on previously. SOme 25 minutes of the interview centered on the project that I worked previously, like why it was done that way and why not that way. Then I was asked to write a C program to count the no of words in a string. With that the interview ended and I asked some 1-2 questions and signed off
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