1 Technical Interview consisting of 2 LeetCode problems with 1 engineer.
1 Technical Interview consisting of 1 LeetCode problem with 2 engineers.
1 System Desing Interview with a senior engineer
1 Behavioral Interview with an HR and a Senior Engineer.
Interview was okay. Asked three questions, provided solutions for all of the questions, but communication wasn’t good. Not all problems were well defined and so on. Despite having two engineers on the call, couldn’t connect w both
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Annoyingly long design questions for data structures
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2019
Interview
After phone screen with HR, got a phone interview with an algorithm question for an hour, then went on to on-site.
I got the expected format of 2 engineering interviews with 2 questions each. First interview were Leetcode medium questions related to Candy Crush and condensing a LinkedList. Second interviewer gave me a variation of the Knapsack NP-Hard problem but complained about my run-time being exponential. He didn't even know what the Knapsack problem was. Not surprisingly, he walked me out of the office and I didn't get the offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1-Dimensional Candy Crush to condense the row as much as possible