I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sep 2017
Interview
I applied through the company's website and after two weeks I received an email to choose a time for a phone interview, After two weeks I made a phone interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1- Introduce myself.
2- Talk about one of the projects from your CV.
3- Why did you choose this project.
4- What is abstraction in java and give an example.
5- Talk about memory management in java.
6- Design a parking system (OOP Question from cracking the coding interview).
7- You have 3 modification to a string (adding, removing or replacing a letter). Given 2 strings s1 and s2 show whether s1 can be converted to s2 by one modification (Also in Cracking the coding interview).
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
on campus through career fair. interviewers kept interrupting me when i tried to talk through my thought process. kind of negative experience. still going to apply again next year though, hopefully will get better interviewers next time.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
Two people, each asking a question in order. One asked a typical data structure question where people choose their data structure and approach and analyse the time/space complexity. They also present extreme cases and would like you to improve your thoughts. The other one is a non typical problem solving. They only give you limited resources (no while/for loops, no counters) and want you to think outside of the box.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Without using loops & counters, how do you solve this specific problem.