I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Apr 2023
Interview
For the first round, I had a technical phone interview which is basically a leetcode medium level question. It's to assess mainly your knowledge in DSA and see what you know. The second around is another technical interview, but a little harder and ideally, should recieve minimum hints.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function to crush candy in one dimensional board. In candy crushing games, groups of like items are removed from the board. In this problem, any sequence of 3 or more like items should be removed and any items adjacent to that sequence should now be considered adjacent to each other. This process should be repeated as many time as possible. You should greedily remove characters from left to right.
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