I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Jan 2023
Interview
Interviews are streamline and process is transparwnt. HR speaks to you multiple times during the procedure and explains the procedure well. Screening round is not that tough. While post screening round team specific interviews are tough and they reject quickly, immediately. Filter is even high when you are applying to abroad positions sitting in India.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It is said that questions are from leetcode. But for me none of the coding or design question was from leetcode. Still practicing at leetcode help solving those questions.
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