I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Nov 2014
Interview
The interview process was quite long. I had to tackle
- A phone interview, held on hackerrank.com
- Two separate webcam-based interviews with different people from Bloomberg. It can be either held from home or in the nearest Bloomberg office
- An entire day in London office, during which I tackled 4 or 5 interviews with both technical and HR folks, evaluating both technical and soft skills
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Expect a tough technical interview, covering both programming fundamentals (knowledge of basic data structures, Big-O complexity analysis and optimization and so on) and problem solving questions.
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.