I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Oct 2017
Interview
A recruiter from a partner company contacted me via LinkedIn, we had a brief call about my background and resume. After exchanging a few email I was setup for a phone interview with a coding challenge on HackerRank. The interviewer was extremely on time and polite, he asked me about my background, resume, projects and a few behavioral questions like "Why Bloomberg?". After that we went ahead with the coding portion of the interview, I had some difficulty coming up with an efficient solution for the problem, but the interviewer walked me though it and we sort of came up with a solution. After that we had a brief Q&A section and that was it. Not surprises, next day I got a rejection email. I would describe the process until that point very pleasant, make sure you practice as much problems as you can and know your Data Structures. Which I have done better, but oh well, it was very good practice for future interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There will be a meeting at New York and San Francisco offices. We will have to fly the participants to either one of these two offices. Let's say each office can accommodate half of the participants. Our goal is to assign each participant to an office in a way that the total travel cost for the company is minimized. What is this minimal cost?
SF NY
A 500 700
B 200 600
C 400 500
D 600 200
Output : 1400 (A:500 + B:200 + C:500 +D: 200)
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Aug 2017
Interview
Initially exchanged few emails with the co-ordinator to schedule a telephone interview and coding challenge. The phone interview and coding challenge lasted one hour. I did not progress past the phone interview and coding challenge phase.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was asked to write a program in any programming language to find the largest sub-string with non-repeating characters.
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londres, Inglaterra) in Aug 2017
Interview
Two phone interviews, then a F2F round. Phone interviews included hackerrank coding. I was impressed by the F2F interview, which lasted 5 hours and included one hour of coding and code review, 3 hours of discussing my background and matching mine and their expectations and a 1-hour HR interview. All interviewers were positive and friendly, everyone in the office was relaxed (not that I expected). Definitely a positive experience. Had to refuse the offer right now, but that was a good option to consider.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hackerrank coding. Not about balancing a binary tree, more technical and useful.