I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Feb 2010
Interview
One recruiter had connection with the hiring manager and forwarded my resume. The first phone interview went well and the interviewer was very nice. Right after the interview, the recruiter received positive feedback and told me that they invited me for in-person interview. However, the next day I was told there would be a 2nd phone interview because I am not local. Then the story came. For twice they didn't call me at the scheduled time, each time they had different reasons. The third time I finally received the call after waiting for another 20 minutes. This time, the interviewer asked some weird questions and wasn't nice. I got declined quickly.
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