I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Phila, PA) in Sep 2019
Interview
I applied to Bloomberg at my school's career fair in Fall 2019. I was asked to interview with them the next week on campus for an in-person interview. It was a 2-on-1 interview, with an initial design question then a relatively simple algorithms questions. The interviewers were rather rude and were even laughing (seemingly at me) at points and one was on his computer a lot of the time. I was surprised when, at the end of the interview, they asked me to come back the next day on the spot. The second interviewers were much nicer. They asked an open-ended design question and I sat and drew it out for them while they asked questions about different potential problems with it that I had to respond to and reconfigure the design when necessary. I received an email a week later that I they would not be moving forward.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array that is sorted so that the numbers increase until there is a peak and then they decrease, write an algorithm to search for a number in the array.
Design a system that takes in files and passes them along to a different system to be processed.
I met them at the career fair and then I applied online. Few weeks later, recruiter reached out to schedule a phone interview with a team lead and then I had an in person interview on campus.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone interview: patterns with strings and lists. In person: question focused on design.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Sep 2019
Interview
Two Technical, one recruiter behavioral, one Engineering manager behavioral.
Handled extremely professionally and more than just a regular run-of-the-mill interview. Very much conversational. In the beginning of the second technical, we went on a semi-casual chat regarding languages and going into what I knew about them, which was refreshing since it wasn't the regular 'let's jump into how well you memorize questions from leetcode'