I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Mar 2020
Interview
1. A phone call by recruiting agent to confirm the role and current experience. Overall scheduling of the interviews was good.
Round 1
A telephonic interview, with a single this was quite well organized and the interviewer created a positive environment.
Round 2
Group Panel telephonic interview, one interviewer had a very grim face during the whole interview. You can't essentially judge whether you are going right or not. Not very helpful during the interview design discussion.
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Other Senior Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Bloomberg
Terrible communication. Got passed between 3 different recruiters all of whom gave specific dates for updates and blew past them. Descriptions of what would be covered in the interviews are wholly inaccurate (don’t bother reading the PDF they sent to “prep” you, almost none of it came up in any of the 3 interviews I did with them.)
Interviewers themselves were decent but clearly had exact “right” answers they were looking for. What’s the point of a leetcode question where there’s only one way to implement it? What’s the point of a system design interview where you’re having a candidate parse through a complex system that they clearly already know everything about and are just looking for 1-2 EXACT modifications to check off their boxes? Was there even a right answer? I genuinely don’t know what this company was looking for. Waste of time, waste of effort, waste of resources. Avoid, avoid, avoid
Interviewed with two separate teams. Coding rounds. Leet code style question. The interview went on for 1 hr. Waiting for the next steps. The seem to like link lists and arrays