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.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Feb 2010
Interview
First there is a online evaluation system. Basicly you can choose from c c++ java for evaluation. Then you will be contacted by two engineers to do some coding and brain teaser over phone. At last, three on site interview will happen in a day. One for programming, one for design problem and one for HR
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Some basic time and space complexity problems of every sorting algorithm, link list and array comparison.
Hash table is a popular question here. They will ask if you have used it before. Which lib you used or how did you write it out. Java is much easier than c++ to resolve this.
Brain teaser: two person have two pizza for food, but only one of them is holding the knife. One cut per pizza. Each has only one chance to have the priority to choose one slice of a pizza. It means a process of cutting, choosing, cutting choose. How many of the pizza can the one with knife get maximum?
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