I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Nov 2014
Interview
I went through a standard interview process. It started with the phone interview which I went through successfully. After that, I was invited to an in-person interview. During the in-person interview, I spoke with several different people. Some of them didn't have any technical question for me and just asked questions about my resume. Otherwise asked technical / logical questions.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2016
Interview
I first had one on-campus interview with 2 engineers, who both asked easy questions but had a lot of interesting followup questions about runtime and modifications. Bloomberg cares a lot about these optimizations because even small rounding errors or loss or precision could mean a lot of money in the financial market. I overlooked that the last time I applied for for a summer internship, and that's probably why I got rejected last time.
Second and final round was onsite - I had one interview with engineers, who were both super awkward and I definitely thought I failed it. Asked random question about treemaps which I botched...but they were interested in my experience with scalability and distributed systems. Next interview was with HR who just asked me about my personal career goals. Last interview was with a manager who was super chill - we mostly talked about my projects and goals, but then he asked me a brain-teaser like question that I got mostly right.
To be honest, I'm surprised I got an offer - maybe the two awkward interviewers liked me more than I thought?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Random question about treemaps that I got wrong...but apparently did ok enough to get an offer
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Boston, MA) in Sep 2016
Interview
First round Telephonic interview with a coding challenge. The interviewer was very helpful, she was giving a few hints but I think I should have grasped them on my own. The hints where actually various test cases
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
pairs of integers in an array that sum up to the given target