I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Austin, TX) in Feb 2018
Interview
Start with the introduction about the team. Then ask about my previous experience and project. The next 40 mins is coding interview about implement doublelinkedlist to stream data. Final 5 mins is regular Q&A for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
implement doublelinkedlist to stream dataset to reorder the objects in the stream.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2018
Interview
I was referred by a friend who works in their SF office. I then filled out an online application, had a technical phone screen during which there was no live coding, an on site, and then a final recruiter screen. I am a bootcamp grad, and I found their process to be incredibly fair.
The on site was a few meetings with managers where I was told about the team, what kind of work they do, and then a 2+ hour pair programming exercise where my computer was connected to a screen and they gave me a real world problem to do. They take mentorship and teaching really seriously in that office, and people love working at Bloomberg.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Talk about a project you've done. How would you optimize it, what APIs did you use, explain how those APIs work, etc.
At the on-site, write a search feature for a large dataset that required some cleanup.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Atlanta, GA) in Feb 2018
Interview
On campus interview. Two rounds of technical interviews, meeting two interviewers each time. In the first round I managed to answer 3 coding problems but only two in the second round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to reverse words in a string. Design scalable LRU cache system.