I applied through university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sep 2015
Interview
Spoke to Bloomberg Engineers at Career Fair [was asked to reverse a linked list on paper] and was scheduled for an interview the next day on school campus. Ended up doing three interviews in four days. Received an email from the recruiter a week later asking for any deadlines [which I didn't at the time]. Didn't hear anything for two weeks, then sent an email to the recruiter informing her I had received offers and had to reply in the next three weeks. Got an email the next morning saying she'll get to me soon. Got a call that afternoon with the offer.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
[At career fair] Reverse a linked list with O(1) space
[First interview] Given a map of flights and miles accumulated, a starting location, and the maximum number of flights, find the path to travel the max possible distance without going over the max number of flights and end at the starting location
[Second interview] Print the path between two nodes in a BST
[Second interview] Implement a method that, when called, returns whether or not that method has been called more than 10 times in the previous 10 seconds
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