I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2017
Interview
The process was pretty smooth overall and took less than a month. It involved 2 on campus tech interviews, 1 HR screen and 1 manager screen (done on site in SF).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a stream of points (n total), find the k closest points to a start point.
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.