I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Berkeley, CA) in Sep 2018
Interview
I applied to Bloomberg on the career fair and received on-campus interview in the next Monday. On-campus interview was on the same week as I received the invitation. So the time is very tight. It was a 1-hour interview with around 10 minutes background check and 50 minutes coding. There were two questions, both in Leetcode. One easy, one hard. There were three engineers.
Fair, from leetcode 150, as long as you grind leetcode would be good. First round was one question. Second round another tech question, if you don’t pass you don’t go to the next interview for super day
Chat with alumni in the career fair
R1: two lc problems ( bfs + lru )
R2: system design
R3: behavior question
R4: EM asked some questions about the projects on my resume
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The challenges I've faced in my projects and how did I solve the problems
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
I've only done the first round so far. It was 10 minutes of resume diving and behavioral, and then 50 minute technical. They asked easy/medium leetcode question. This was an online interview done over zoom.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Identify a 'coolstring' which has the same frequency of every character.
Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Bloomberg with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 61% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 328 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Bloomberg overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Bloomberg as a Software Engineer(Internship) according to 328 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
Presentation: 21%
One on one interview: 20%
Group panel interview: 10%
Skills test: 8%
Drug test: 3%
Background check: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Personality test: 3%
Other: 1%
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