I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londres, Inglaterra) in Sep 2022
Interview
I was interviewing for the position in the MARS team. 1st round - 1.5h online screening. 1 hard leetcode problem with a lot of additional questions. 2nd round - virtual onsite. First call - 1.5h coding challenge (another hard from leetcode). Second call - 1.5h system design. Very strange (bad) experience. After I walked my interviewer through my background on system design call he was disappointed and the last hour kinda felt like a waste of time (he wasnt paying attention to my design doing other things on his computer in parallel). On the other hand I really enjoyed talking to all other people in Bloomberg
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Question 1
hard leetcode problems (topological sort) system design task
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jul 2021
Interview
4 LC questions and 1 behavioral interview. 1/2 easy LC. The rest medium and 1 low Acceptance medium. Then behavior after. Trying to move into a more practical style interview.
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Question 1
Just practice LC. Do about 50 Easy. and about 50 - 70 Medium. 20 hard. Top LC Bloomberg questions
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sep 2022
Interview
Overall a good experience with Bloomberg interviews. They were respectful, clear, iterated quickly. Initially an in house recruiter reached out and explained the process. You do apply to a specific team, unlike to a generic office like at Google and similar. You can apply to two positions. Even though I chose different positions on the website than the recruiter suggested, she did not object and transferred me to a different recruiter. The rounds and questions were pretty standard. A standard coding interview for the first screen, and for the virtual on-site you get another coding interview, a systems design interview and a talk the with managers. They use hackerrank as platform.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Matrix multiplication for a very sparse large matrices