I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Voorhees, NJ) in May 2021
Interview
Initial call with recruiter asked about expectation and explained about interview process and followed by got an email to schedule an interview for Online live coding with video call interview once this clears for Virtual interview meeting.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
To write a coding but did not give much time as parallel asked more questions about current technology what I am working on.
Applied through online and got a call from recruiter. Got scheduled for a first round interviewer. Felt like interviewer was not well prepared. When I was asking more clarity on the question, he was like "don't complicate the things. " He initially asked me my approach and said my approach. He said about its time complexity and asked if I can enhance it. Time complexity needs to be done in air and we need enhance it by thinking in the air. Somehow started the coding, he was continuously questioning my approach without even completing my code completely. Not sure how he was expecting a optimal solution without brute-force approach. After the interview I felt like to think twice if offered this position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
File entries, of service and their start/stop times. Return the top k services that has most execution time stamp. Since he mentioned file, I was not sure whether we need to read from the file or how do the program gets input, "don' t complicate the things" was the reply I got.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Princeton, NJ) in Apr 2021
Interview
The interview was for 1 hr mostly technical. The interviewer asked basic python questions. Then a hackerrank problem to solve, it was a medium recursion problem (replace wildcards in a binary string). Second problem was gossip algorithm which I had no clue. Ran out of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hackerrank question...replace wildcards in a given binary string with 0 & 1 and produce all combinations.