I applied through university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sept 2017
Interview
Visited their booth in career fair, asked for on-campus interview a week later. First interview was with two software engineers. Simple tree question and some matrix processing question. They asked for second interview in afternoon the same day. Second interview was with one different software engineer. One algorithm question on whiteboard (can be found in leetcode). Received rejection email after a week later.
(I heard Bloomberg prefers C++, but they doesn't really care and let's you use any language.)
Chat with alumni in the career fair
R1: two lc problems ( bfs + lru )
R2: system design
R3: behavior question
R4: EM asked some questions about the projects on my resume
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The challenges I've faced in my projects and how did I solve the problems
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
I've only done the first round so far. It was 10 minutes of resume diving and behavioral, and then 50 minute technical. They asked easy/medium leetcode question. This was an online interview done over zoom.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Identify a 'coolstring' which has the same frequency of every character.
The entire process was a bit chaotic, I spent a bit of time going back a fourth with my recruiter to schedule the interview by the time i was able to i believe they had already moved forward with a different candidate. My interviewer ended the interview early and had no interest in me at all.