I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Feb 2024
Interview
First was a conversation with the Talent Acquisition person, to talk about experience on the resume.
The onsite was a 5hr sessions that had:
- A leetcode problem with a pair of developers
- A React Problem
- System Design
Everyone was very nice and courteous. I was extremely nervous in the interview, but they were able to guid me through it. While I didn't get an offer, I would definitely go through their interview cycle again.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Leetcode problem pertaining to calendar management
Terrible communication. Got passed between 3 different recruiters all of whom gave specific dates for updates and blew past them. Descriptions of what would be covered in the interviews are wholly inaccurate (don’t bother reading the PDF they sent to “prep” you, almost none of it came up in any of the 3 interviews I did with them.)
Interviewers themselves were decent but clearly had exact “right” answers they were looking for. What’s the point of a leetcode question where there’s only one way to implement it? What’s the point of a system design interview where you’re having a candidate parse through a complex system that they clearly already know everything about and are just looking for 1-2 EXACT modifications to check off their boxes? Was there even a right answer? I genuinely don’t know what this company was looking for. Waste of time, waste of effort, waste of resources. Avoid, avoid, avoid
Interviewed with two separate teams. Coding rounds. Leet code style question. The interview went on for 1 hr. Waiting for the next steps. The seem to like link lists and arrays