I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Dec 2020
Interview
First round was a phone interview with an engineer on hackerrank. First 5-ish minutes we discussed what he does and the various teams at Bloomberg. Then, 45 minutes of Hackerrank and finally a bit of time for questions at the end.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
2 leetcode mediums although I can't remember what they were. Involved hashmaps/hashsets
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Edinburgh, Schottland) in Oct 2020
Interview
About five or six interviews total, ranging from behavioural questions online to software design presentation. One on one phone calls with member of team going through some medium-ish leetcode problem. Adequate help given if stuck
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Essentially candy crush but on a single line, can swap two adjacent pieces and then remove characters if 3+ repeats
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Dec 2019
Interview
Online interview went well. Follow up for onsite was much harder. They asked implementation heavy problems. Another interview follow up involved APIs and servers and creating an API to facilitate between two entities
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to invert this matrix
How to tell if a word is an anagram (string manipulation)