I applied through university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Dec 2017
Interview
I first passed two rounds of on-campus interviews and was invited to do an on-site interview. After I was brought to the office by an HR, she took a tour with me around the lounge area in the building. The first round interview was done with two HR staff members and the second round interview was done with two software engineers. One of the two engineers was the engineering team lead.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you have a large dataset of English words and you want to store them, what data structure would you need? If you want to retrieve the data in an alphabetical order, how would you alter your data structure? Considering the large size of the data, how would you initialize the data structure? Please write down some pseudocode.
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.