I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Oct 2018
Interview
I applied online without any referrer. After ~2 weeks they wrote me they wanted a phone interview with me. I chose preferred at their site.
The duration was 1 hour, first of all, the interview asked me typical questions like "why Bloomberg" and "what was the hardest problem you have solved during your last project". After that, I was asked to solve a medium difficulty task and then I was asked some technologies questions like "what if we reach the end of a non-function without any return statement in C++?", "what is a vector, what is time complexity of push_back and why" and "what is the stack memory, can you name the difference between it and other types of memory?".
I liked this interview (it was my first interview experience, but I think I can see the difference between bad and good interview).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have some weird language which has some alphabet, but since the alphabet is hard, we will work with latin transcription. Given an alphabet (sequence of letter combination, each describes a letter of the original alphabet transcripted to Latin) and the list of words. We also consider all words are written correctly and it's right to pick every letter combination greedy (the longest combination is prefered). We have to sort our list in alphabet order.
For example:
If the alphabet is {"b", "bc", "aa", "c"} and the list is {"aab", "baa", "bcb", "bbc"}, then the sorted list will be { "bbc", "baa", "bcb", "aab"}
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.