I applied through university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Oct 2015
Interview
45 minutes, two interviewers. Not very passioned.
Why Bloomberg. Background question based on resume.
Each interviewers gave one problem to solve. The first one is data structure design, the second one is basic algorithm. I don't know why they give me a difficult problem, then an easy one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Given a lot of transactions, one transaction contain company name and the number of money in this transaction. Design a data structure, find the transaction with most money in it.
follow up, find the company who owns transactions with most money (add-up).
2. Find the max number in an integer array.
follow up, find the second number in this array.
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.
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