I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
There was 1 hacker-rank coding round which was easy and then 4 onsite rounds out of which 2 were technical and the other 2 were behavioral with senior manager and HR to get a grasp of the cultural git and expectations and other formalities
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
round 1
1. Get the most trending tweet from a feed of user tweets
2. word wrapping problem
round 2
design the k most visited URLs for chrome
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.