I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Hong Kong) in Nov 2022
Interview
Got referral from friend, then first phone screen with the HR. After the phone screen, got to talk to the hiring manager to see if it is a fit for the team. After that, two rounds of technical interviews are scheduled for the same day. Both are leetcode oriented interviews. One is more algorithm like( If I remember it correctly, it must have been a stack related question), the other is a data structure problem. Questions are not hard, got to solve them pretty easily.
However, because they need someone who can work readily, did not get an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: stack question
Q: data structure
both medium hard leetcode
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