I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Mar 2017
Interview
Went with a recruiting firm and got a phone interview in 2 weeks. On the day of the interview got a call 5 mins late than the scheduled time. Interviewer seemed to be in a great hurry. He dived into Hacker rank session with out any questions on my expertise or technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you have a CSV file with performance and stock details, how do efficiently get first 5 stocks with highest performance using appropriate java collections?
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