I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Toronto, ON) in Oct 2017
Interview
Met at a university career fair. Was invited to an on campus interview the same week. There were 3 in-person interviews total. The first interview involved basic (easy-medium) leetcode type questions. The second asked a design (oop) question and I was also asked about to give a high-level overview of a solution to a harder algorithm question. In the 3rd interview I was asked to implement karatsuba fast multiplication (with the optimization). The first two interviews were manageable. The last interview was hard.
Given a list containing the centers (on the x axis) and diameters of a number of balloons, determine the minimum number of darts you need to throw in order to pop all the balloons (you are throwing darts vertically, perpendicular to the x axis)
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.