I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Nov 2020
Interview
One phone site, followed by 4 onsite if selected. these are technical interviews. There was an exploratory call at first.
Things to look out for:
Gather requirements before starting any assessments
Provide alternative solutions and trade offs before choosing one
Communicate through your coding letting the team know what you're doing
Look for corner cases.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the number of islands. This is a variation of the standard problem: “Counting the number of connected components in an undirected graph”
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.
Fairly simple. Phone call then onsite. For onsite it was 10 min office tour follow by 1 hr interview then 1 hours system design and 30 mins manager interview. Interviewers were nice and the recruiter was accommodating.
5 rounds first 3 being leetcode coding ones and the last 2 being behavioral. The first three are the hardest asking mainly taggeed questions and the rest are not that bad