Fairly common process. I didn't prepare sufficiently and got rejected. HR Screen then technical interview where I got rejected. Interviewer was helpful through the process. Padding with words to fill limit now.
No offer
Negative experience
Average interview
Application
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Princeton, NJ) in Mar 2025
Interview
1st interview: 20% behavioral and resume screen, the remaining 80% was 2 LeetCode-style questions. Easy-medium difficulty. Very punctual with follow-up emails. interviewer was very uninterested and unresponsive, and left me on my own when solving problems.
Technical Screen. Scheduled a week after applying. Overall very fast and very nice people. Got a very chill interviewer and was expected to solve 2 leetcode mediums in 40 minutes
Interviewer failed to clarify on the input, forces me to apply her/his logic throughout, even though the time complexity is the same, and space complexity is equivalent in Big O notation. Late for 1/4 of the interview.