Coding test was fair. Too bad the HR was dishonest and acted like they had memory loss when I told them my comp expectations. Their offer was far below the range asked for as if they were living in an alternate reality. If this is how they act before they hire you, expect to be gaslit after they hire you.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Aug 2022
Interview
Applied through a Bloomberg Recruiter, after a phone screen, Interviewed with 2 separate teams, on the same day. Each interview lasted about 4 hours, there were 2 LC rounds, 1 Sys design and 1 manager round for each interview.
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Dec 2022
Interview
Was given two problems leetcode medium difficulty. Was able to solve first and in the process of solving second was interrupted by interviewer pushing on his solution (was I taking too long?). In the midst of this interviewer told me that the way I approached it by running incomplete code a number of times to test - is a negative sign. I was going to ask if I should stop but proceeded looking to see if interviewer ego will present itself again. Later I learned that Bloomberg evaluates the process of your code writing during these interviews down to variable naming and indentation. It seems like it’s a pattern at Bloomberg to mention significance of their employment (10+ years in the case of my interviewer) and show disinterest to the candidate profile. Interviewer was polite, but the way interview was conducted made me think that if joining Bloomberg means being surrounded by such toxic individuals shaming you on spacing and indentations in your code is something I want to be in.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Calculate string length by using a recursion, check is a number sequence is a palindrome.