I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (West Lafayette, IN) in Sep 2015
Interview
The interview was held on campus for one hour. I was interviewed with two indian people which were young and nice. They asked me something about my resume and directly went to the technical section which contained two questions. The first was to write a tree class( does't have to be a binary tree) and print out the level order of a tree. The second one was about a file with three columns that were name, size and category. print out all the lines that mapped to a specific type.
The interviewers were nice and friendly. I think I spent too much time on the first question(I got it correctly) so I got rejected after a week.
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.