I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Nov 2019
Interview
applied through online, the hiring processing took 2 weeks, the interviewer was very helpful. He initially went through the resume and asked me questions regarding my projects, experience. Then we went on to the coding where I had to write a code on the hackerrank platform. Later, he asked me whether I had any questions and told me about the Bloomberg terminal.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Return the index of next largest element in the given array
Engineers there are full of themselves and not open to acknowledging their mistakes.
All was going well with leetcode medium-ish questions, until the last one. I gave a solution and the interviewer said it was no good. So i spent several minutes trying to solve it but with no success. After some time passed, the interviewer explained the solution. Thing is, my solution was essentially the same as his solution. When I brought it up to him he initially brushed it off but as I insisted that my answer is the same as his, he began to catch on. Now he's trying to point out errors or inefficiencies with my code, when in fact my code is more efficient than his answer. By the end of that interview, they led me out so I knew I didn't get it and I would argue that the last interviewer is single-handedly the reason why I didn't get the job. And even when I explained my solution to him, he dismissed it because he originally said it was incorrect and had too much pride to admit he was wrong.
If it wasn't for the fact that I already had a better offer, I'd be SUPER pissed. But also, I don't think I would want to work somewhere that engineers refuse to admit their own mistakes. Stay away, or hope that you don't get unlucky like I did.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
BST questions, stack questions, surprisingly no DP
First take a brief view of your CV and then must complete one coding test. HackerRank supports many languages, and you will be able to choose the one you are most comfortable with for your interview.