I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londres, Angleterre) in Apr 2016
Interview
Interview takes one hours. We used both phone and shared screen. Ask questions about c++ and javascript. Agency didn't arrange it very well. Supposed to finish the test before the interview but not told by the agency. The interviewer is very nice. Feel not easy to pass the interview. Need to prepare for it very well if you want to pass the test.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Ask c++ concepts of memories, say, stack, heap, register, shared point.
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