I applied through university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sep 2021
Interview
The interviewers were great, gave me hints and helped me think through the questions, encouraged me when I was on right path. Interview process was smooth, started with school coffee chats with recruiters, was able to schedule interviews with flexibility
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
1. Find busy times of a person given start end end times of their meetings (similar to LC meeting scheduling but honestly simpler)
2. Given welsh alphabet, sort words (you can probably google this and get the exact question somewhere else)- reminder that a time-efficient way of checking if the words are equal at the very beginning as an edge case is to compare their hashes
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.
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