I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Mar 2022
Interview
1st round phone screen asked for introduction and an interesting project on your resume. I guess my project was not interesting enough. Got interrupted and moved on to coding problems suddenly. All of which made it looked like it was just a process. They don't really care about what it was as long as you described it cheerfully.
The first question was to design a subway class that has a method to get the average passing time between 2 stations in a time complexity O(1). The interviewer gave it as if it was a system design question. Talked about consuming other objects as well. When I stuck, he just randomly hinted me with a checkIn(int id, string stationName, int t) method that I could design first. After the interview I googled and it appeared to be leetcode #1396, but he described it in a much complexing and confusing way. There's no chance a candidate would understand his hit if they hadn't done the same problem before.
The second question was more of a traditional coding problem that I was expected. I googled later, similar to flatten a multilevel LinkedList (#430).
It was hard for a new grad, not to mention for a candidate who don't have cs background. This company doesn't welcome non-cs not as they emphasize. The whole value diversity thing is a fraud. They just want a leetcode machine who have at least done/memorized 500+ medium-hard problems and can talk code. Seriously, no wonder most of the posts are no-offers.
Lastly, don't apply if you haven't done/memorize much of leetcode. Otherwise it will be only humiliation.
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introduction, interesting project, system design, flatten multilevel linked list
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londres, Angleterre) in Sep 2021
Interview
Firstly, I had a phone interview, lasting aprox 45 mins. I had to answer somw questions about my previous experience and why I want to join Bloomberg, then I had to solve a problem on HackerRank.
After this, I moved on to the virtual onsite, which consisted of a coding interview and a system design interview. The coding interview was pretty much the same as the first one, but it was not telephonic and there were 2 interviewers with me in conversation. The system design interview was more difficult. I didn't pass it.
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Why I want to join Bloomberg, What projects have I worked on before
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londres, Angleterre) in Mar 2018
Interview
I applied through their website. The first step was by phone. I passed the first step by phone call and was invited to on-site in London which has an amazing office.
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On site I was given an easy-medium programming question. Even though solved it I guess they wanted some perfection.