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.
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