I applied through other source. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Mar 2023
Interview
The interviewers are very poor communicators, prejudice and biased. The interviewers are extremely binary in that they have one "optimal" solution in front of them while you're coding and push aggressively for you to code exactly that. Anything you code differently "is wrong" in their eyes. Whether or not it compiles and the runtime is optimal makes no difference. I was given an easy leetcode problem, "Merge Two Sorted Arrays In Place" with one array having empty spaces. I coded a working solution that compiled just fine. Then I just given a question to create a class with a "steps_from" method that takes an integer and if its even divide n by 2 (n/2) and if its odd (3*n)-1 until n = 1, and return the number of steps required until you hit one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Merge Two Sorted Arrays In Place" with one array having empty spaces. create a class with a "steps_from" method that takes an integer and if its even divide n by 2 (n/2) and if its odd (3*n)-1 until n = 1, and return the number of steps required until you hit one.
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