I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Coventry, England) in May 2020
Interview
The interview was over the phone, and at the same time on hackerrank for writing the code. It started with a very brief introduction about the job position, and exercise. As expected, the interviewer expected talking, and explaining while writing the code. The interview ended with me asking some questions about the role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
// Find the average time between a starting point and an end point (subway stations)
// A USER AT STATION 1 : time 0;
// A USER EXIT STATION 1 : time 3; (0, 3) - 1.5
// B USER AT STATION 2 : time 4
// B USER EXIT STATION 2 : time 7; (4, 7) - 5.5
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Nov 2023
Interview
Phone technical, very easy. They asked me the underground train question which they do a lot apparently but I didn't know and still found it simple
In person technical, not too hard problem (not very leetcody) that they slowly built on as time went, just know your basic DSA knowledge
In person system design. As a student they don't expect you to know a lot of special book knowledge, was given existing architecture and asked about how I would implement some features in it
HR, general HR and situational questions about previous teams etc. Slipped up saying I enjoyed data science
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Underground train system (google it)
Training a "next word" prediction model on frequency counts
Implement logging/warnings on an existing system
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Apr 2018
Interview
I applied online in January 2018. At the half of March I had the first technical interview(which was supposed to be a phone interview) on site at my school. The interview went alright with personal questions and some c vs Java, stack vs heap questions and two exercises : to write class for a parking spot and other algorithms with recursivity. Next I had the on site interview in London with 3 interviews : two of them technical and one with the HR