I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
I dropped off my resume at school hiring event and got an email inviting me for a phone screen within about a week.
The phone screen itself is an important point. This was my first tech interview and I was very nervous, but it didn't help that the interviewer seemed so bored from the moment I picked up the phone. It made me more nervous still, and I fumbled an easy phone screen question.
It also took them about a month to get back to me with a rejection.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an event taking place in two locations - one on the east coast and one on the west coast - how would you distribute attendees of the event between the two locations, given the price of bringing them to each location?
Phone screen went very well, i passed to the onsites and they gave me the problem statement and i proposed a sub-optimal solution. They told to me come up with more optimal solution and didn't give me much time to think about it. They got impatient and gave me a hint. I figured it out and solved the problem, but apparently they thought I needed hints, which I didn't ask for.
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.