I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londres, Inglaterra) in May 2018
Interview
Headhunter reached me at LinkedIn and after 2 weeks I had phone interview at Bloomberg.
I knew I failed the interview in the first minute after interviewer called me. He called me at cell phone with the Cisco table phone at meeting room. The sound was very noisy and distorted. I'm not native English speaker and I wasn't able to understand him more than 30% of what he was saying so most of the time I was focused more on what he was saying than on solving a problem.
+ The interviewer was polite and helpful.
+ the position looks very interesting.
- They should use Skype or other voice software instead of cell phones.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function which returns true if is called more than 3 times in 3 seconds.
Terrible communication. Got passed between 3 different recruiters all of whom gave specific dates for updates and blew past them. Descriptions of what would be covered in the interviews are wholly inaccurate (don’t bother reading the PDF they sent to “prep” you, almost none of it came up in any of the 3 interviews I did with them.)
Interviewers themselves were decent but clearly had exact “right” answers they were looking for. What’s the point of a leetcode question where there’s only one way to implement it? What’s the point of a system design interview where you’re having a candidate parse through a complex system that they clearly already know everything about and are just looking for 1-2 EXACT modifications to check off their boxes? Was there even a right answer? I genuinely don’t know what this company was looking for. Waste of time, waste of effort, waste of resources. Avoid, avoid, avoid
Interviewed with two separate teams. Coding rounds. Leet code style question. The interview went on for 1 hr. Waiting for the next steps. The seem to like link lists and arrays