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
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.
Fairly simple. Phone call then onsite. For onsite it was 10 min office tour follow by 1 hr interview then 1 hours system design and 30 mins manager interview. Interviewers were nice and the recruiter was accommodating.
5 rounds first 3 being leetcode coding ones and the last 2 being behavioral. The first three are the hardest asking mainly taggeed questions and the rest are not that bad