Overall, it was a positive and professional interview experience, though the interviewer was on the stricter side. Unfortunately, I was dealing with an illness and wasn't able to prepare as thoroughly as I wanted to, which left me feeling a bit off throughout the conversation. Despite not feeling my best and facing a tough interviewer, the process was well-structured.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jan 2019
Interview
Phone interview, easy problems. On site interview, cold weather, Hotel/Flight/Car was fine, the provided lunch was garbage. They had our interviewers take us to a room and give us a technical problem. After another set of interviewers came in and they had me wait and then escorted me out of the building.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked a few basic programming questions that didn't seem to really probe skills or interest in the subject.
Fairly simple. Phone call then onsite. For onsite it was 10 min office tour follow by 1 hr interview then 1 hours system design and 30 mins manager interview. Interviewers were nice and the recruiter was accommodating.
5 rounds first 3 being leetcode coding ones and the last 2 being behavioral. The first three are the hardest asking mainly taggeed questions and the rest are not that bad