Overall, it was a positive and professional interview experience, though the interviewer was on the stricter side. Unfortunately, I was dealing with an illness and wasn't able to prepare as thoroughly as I wanted to, which left me feeling a bit off throughout the conversation. Despite not feeling my best and facing a tough interviewer, the process was well-structured.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Pittsburgh, PA) in Sep 2010
Interview
I was asked to write c++ code on a notepad.
1) implement a binary tree
2) code to clean some text and show them i can use object oriented concepts
3) asked me questions about java and c++ and to explain differences
I got through the interview and to a second round before which I had to do an online test. You can choose which language (c++, java, c#) you want to do the test in. The test is not easy but its not hard either, its just that you get 3 minutes per questions and if you are not prepared for that it could take be a disadvantage, which was what happened to me.
Overall I am disappointed that I was not fully prepared before taking that test, because I got an email in a couple of hours saying and let me just translate, that i did not score above the cut off they have given to the system. Oh well, bye bye Bloomberg!!
Fairly simple. Phone call then onsite. For onsite it was 10 min office tour follow by 1 hr interview then 1 hours system design and 30 mins manager interview. Interviewers were nice and the recruiter was accommodating.
5 rounds first 3 being leetcode coding ones and the last 2 being behavioral. The first three are the hardest asking mainly taggeed questions and the rest are not that bad