I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Nov 2014
Interview
After the resume is picked, the phone call screening process has technical questions through interactive coding and a small test on the relevant technology. The interactive coding is what they use for quicker screening process, where you might even be talking to the manager in question. Next level is the on-site interview where you typically go through more than 1 round of interview depending on how you do the first one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain how you developed your previous application, and what special technique did you use to achieve any additional performance
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