I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sep 2018
Interview
The interviewer call me.
Ask about a challenging project.
Start to work on the two technical questions.
Work me through the questions in words.
I answer them correctly and the interviewer is satisfied.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Giving a tuple (ord, str) of type (string, string), check whether all the characters that appear in both str and ord are in the order of ord.
Examples:
(abc, qaqbqc) -> True
(abc, aaaqbbb) -> True
(abc, caaabbbccc) -> False
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.