Similar to other reviews here except I interviewed with two teams and oh my god it was bad experience. No real values or culture that they try to portray. Wasn't informed there is no manager round again coz it was maybe same manager that I talked to with the first interview. I actually aced most rounds in the second set of onsite. Will get the feedback soon. Overall I did not see presence of culture that bloomberg talks about. Will not interview with them again. Atleast with not the group that I talked to.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londres, Inglaterra) in Dec 2022
Interview
Applied through their career page. Got technical phone screen. Initially asked me about my current job and experience and why Bloomberg. then Gave me LC Hard and expect to solve in 40 minute. Didn't go well. Got rejected next day. It is waste of time and effort to even try in bloomberg especially for experienced people.
No HR call talking about the team or company or anything. Directly an email.... (This is a red flag bdw) Phone interview - Interviewer was nice so I got good hope that culture is atleast decent. Virtual onsite with cloud team - 1st round was coding with 2 people. Both were kinda not on same page but it's fine. Workable solution provided (efficient) 2nd round was system design. By no means they asked something sensible. It was "Web Application" Design that. And I tried to ask questions to the 2 people here to understand some more requirements but they insisted to NOT go deep and keep it high level. Once again the 2 people felt not on the same page asking different weird questions. I still went along and talked about everything in depth while communicating and putting it on whiteboard. 3rd round was split between 2 manager. Direct manager to the position and Manager of manager. 1st part was good in this. 2nd part was very very lame. Didn't sense any of the bloomberg values from him. 4th round was a no show coz of interview out sick which I wasn't informed of until I emailed them. I have heard these experiences are team specific and not at bloomberg level so I will give them benefit of doubt. But there are LOT of things that could be improved.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some sort of Leet code meeting rooms II and very lame design webapp