I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jun 2018
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me and schedule a phone interview 2 days after we first talk. But the interviewer did not show up for the phone interview. And then when it comes to the second phone interview, the interviewer did not show up either. Both phone interview have to be rescheduled to a different dates, and both of them has heavy South West Asia accent( you know what I mean). These 2 phone interview tells me a lot about Bloomberg's business cultures.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Identical to ones on LeetCode, so just buy the premium and practices few times.
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