The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jul 2018
Interview
You are on the phone with one to two developers while you are logged into the Hackerrank site. Where they will set up two to three questions of code scripted that you must complete and compile successfully based on the test cases. And while doing that describe how you came to the logic process of getting the answer. If you have testing anxiety this is not a format you can automatically succeed with as a stratagem. The interviewers range from polite and courteous to disinterested and condescending and curt. I developed the insight that no matter how much money they paid you the culture is sink or swim. Especially when I asked the question is the team player culture encouraged there. The answer I received was people are given the resources they can handle. Curt and cut off and unfriendly.There are no team players here for this salary.. which mathematically equates to the probability of high turnover and a high workload. Which is why they have a lot of openings at any one given time. And even then if you pass you are invited on site for four hours to meet personnel but to be tested again in front of a whiteboard TWICE again before you might meet HR at the end for a potential job offer. That is essentially and potentially three tech screens for one job. And maybe for you that is fine. But for me that is nonsense. You should if done right only have to test and tech screen ONCE and only once to show your value.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was given a substringcalculator class and asked to add code that would read through the input and generate a specific output. The input was ASCII characters.
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