I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jul 2016
Interview
More specifically, this was for the role of NDIS Senior Software Developer. I received a HackerRank challenge with 3 questions and a 90 minute limit. The input arguments to the questions questions were worded in a misleading way, and I had to use trial-and-error to determine the correct input and/or output data types. I did fairly well as determined by the number and percentage of passing tests, but I received a rejection email anyway.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given a positive integer N, write a function to return a list of the first N fibonacci numbers in order. For example, if N=5, the output list is 0 1 1 2 3.
GIven a list of strings, return a list of strings of equal length. For each input string, if it is an IPv4 address, output "IPv4". If an IPv6 address, output "IPv6". If neither, output "Neither".
Given a list of integers A and an integer k, return the number of unique pairs of integers in A that sum to k. For example, if A=[1 2 5 5 10 8 2] and k=10, the answer is 2, arrived as 5+5 or 2+8. There were 15 tests for this question, with at least the last two timing out, given that the implementation was not as efficient as possible.
Terrible communication. Got passed between 3 different recruiters all of whom gave specific dates for updates and blew past them. Descriptions of what would be covered in the interviews are wholly inaccurate (don’t bother reading the PDF they sent to “prep” you, almost none of it came up in any of the 3 interviews I did with them.)
Interviewers themselves were decent but clearly had exact “right” answers they were looking for. What’s the point of a leetcode question where there’s only one way to implement it? What’s the point of a system design interview where you’re having a candidate parse through a complex system that they clearly already know everything about and are just looking for 1-2 EXACT modifications to check off their boxes? Was there even a right answer? I genuinely don’t know what this company was looking for. Waste of time, waste of effort, waste of resources. Avoid, avoid, avoid
Interviewed with two separate teams. Coding rounds. Leet code style question. The interview went on for 1 hr. Waiting for the next steps. The seem to like link lists and arrays