I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jun 2015
Interview
1 phone screen and onsite 2 weeks later. 3 rounds tech interviews+manager. The interviewers were quite nice. The group really needed people to contribute right away. Each round are too people. Normally one group leader and one senior developer. I was well-prepared and did a good job in the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Bloomberg is C++ heavy. Prepare well for data structure and C++. All the questions are about these.
You don't need to have a perfect solution for their question. The key is to think it out loud and show your analytical skill.
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