I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY)
Interview
The WORST company I have ever interviewed with. Nothing against the interviewers, they were awesome and helpful. Its the recruitment process that's astonishingly disorganized. First of all, interviewers failed to show up twice for the first interview. Recruiter is slow in rescheduling and responding emails. Then right before the final round for onsite, they canceled my flight and interview just a few days before the final round onsite interview saying that they've found enough interns. Bloomberg is notorious at my school for rejecting people unreasonably and having disorganized recruitment process, this didn't just happen to me but a lot of my friends as well, Yes, their scheduled interviews were canceled because Bloomberg found enough interns.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Bloomberg? Data structure questions such as HashMap, reversing a linked list, sparse matrix multiplication.....
15 minutes talking about resume, 45 minutes for 2 medium leetcode style coding questions (using code share), the interviewer was very friendly and communication is even more important than passing all test cases.
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.