I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jan 2022
Interview
Overall process was pretty structured and organized. There is a recruiter screening, phone interview, then a full loop on-site (virtual). However, the interview experience was negative. You apply to two teams at a time. The phone screen is a leetcode style medium coding interview with some introductory questions about why Bloomberg. During the entire phone interview (one of the interviewers told me to turn on my camera, which I was told it was completely over the phone), I was getting positive feedback, and was even told at the end that I did well, but was informed couple days later that they were not moving forward without any feedback. The interview process seemed fake overall and left a bad taste after the entire process. This company provides strong compensation, but I’m not sure of the integrity of the company or hiring process, so if that is important to you, I would not consider this company.
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