I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2020
Interview
I applied online and got an email to schedule an interview within a couple of days. The initial interview was a technical phone screen.
The interviewer called 10 minutes late, barely apologized. Asked about my experience but didn't feel like he cared or was that interested, just needed to tick the box.
The interviewer asked me a medium level leetcode question. I got to the optimal answer right away but messed up on the time complexity. I guess that was a deal breaker because he said he had another question prepared but that we "wouldn't get too far so let's just end the technical part now"... Remember when I said he arrived 10 mins late? Well at that point I should have had at least another 20 minutes.
Anyways, the entire time it seemed like he didn't want to be interviewing me. I had some time to ask some questions, my first one was about the next interview steps. He said he didn't know and didn't want to give me false information. Then he proceeded to explain that he's been there for 10 years and is heavily invested in the hiring of SWE... Weird that he wouldn't know that information after being in the processes for so long.
So yeah, I didn't feel great after that. I got rejected the next day.
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