I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sept 2023
Interview
The interviewer was late but no worries. We started the interview and it went well. It was a 2D matrix problem, not terribly hard. I got it done. The interviewer acknowledged that I had covered all use cases and we discussed how to optimize it. The interviewer agreed with my suggestions. In the leftover time we talked about working at Bloomberg. Then next day they get back to me and tell me they decided to move on which was surprising caus the interview couldn't have gone better. I have taken enough interviews myself and done enough leetcode to know when I have screwed up. That interview was close to flawless. So they decided to pass for some other reason which their HR did not share even after I asked to recheck if there was a mixup.
Terrible communication. Got passed between 3 different recruiters all of whom gave specific dates for updates and blew past them. Descriptions of what would be covered in the interviews are wholly inaccurate (don’t bother reading the PDF they sent to “prep” you, almost none of it came up in any of the 3 interviews I did with them.)
Interviewers themselves were decent but clearly had exact “right” answers they were looking for. What’s the point of a leetcode question where there’s only one way to implement it? What’s the point of a system design interview where you’re having a candidate parse through a complex system that they clearly already know everything about and are just looking for 1-2 EXACT modifications to check off their boxes? Was there even a right answer? I genuinely don’t know what this company was looking for. Waste of time, waste of effort, waste of resources. Avoid, avoid, avoid
Interviewed with two separate teams. Coding rounds. Leet code style question. The interview went on for 1 hr. Waiting for the next steps. The seem to like link lists and arrays