I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Oct 2009
Interview
They do not judge you against other candidates in the initial phone screen. They want to see if you are qualified to proceed to the ‘face to face’ meeting
They will go more in depth than you might expect in a phone screening – don’t be taken by surprise
This will be hard
Details on resume – anything you put on resume will be fair game for questions
They may ask you how you did it? Why you did it ?
They feel a good developer will understand why they do something. They love details
Good luck
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