I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Cambridge, MA) in Dec 2016
Interview
Process took like a month. Invited to on campus after an initial phone screening. Interviewed at New York office. Interviewees were very friendly. One of my interviews took more than an hour. Asked to write code on paper.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Ann Arbor, MI) in Jan 2017
Interview
Campus interview. Each round had 2 questions. The first round was quite easy, but the second round was quite difficult. I think there were total 3 rounds, but I failed in the second round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Similar to the leetcode problem 496. Next Greater Element I
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (North Tonawanda, NY) in Feb 2017
Interview
Great experience overall. Most posts on Glassdoor have the process down. Phone screen, then onsite with two technical interviews. If you do well on those, a meeting with an HR rep -- in my case, my recruiter -- and then an interview with a senior software engineer.
If you're puton a tour with other interviewees, be friendly with them and chat about what type of prep you've done, what companies you're looking at, where you go to school, etc. I'm glad this part didn't feel too competitive. Talking to the other applicants really soothed my nerves.
Other than that, just study basic leetcode / ctci questions. None of the the questions I got onsite were overwhelmingly complex, though I was super nervous during the first round and struggled at first to write out a clean solution. The interviewers were friendly and helped me along the way.
First interview was paper and pencil. Second interview was in the same conference room but they let me whiteboard on -- interestingly -- a glass door. Admittedly I couldn't see any of the code I read but the interviewers had a better angle so it all worked out.
Got a call the day after while on my amtrak back to college with an offer.