I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Mar 2015
Interview
Met with a recruiter during career fair and submitted my resume. Got an email two weeks later to schedule an on telephonic interview. I then scheduled a telephonic interview in which I will be given a link to HackerRankX a code pair website where the interviewer can share the screen with me . It contains a scratch pad an a coding environment. I was given a question on LinkedList. It was flattening a 2D Linked list. The interviewer in the beginning of the interviewer dived into my resume . I mentioned a project on Visual C++ in my resume. He asked me to explain the project . He then asked me the approach for the problem . I fumbled for a bit and gave him the algorithm . He asked me to go ahead and code the algorithm which I mentioned. He was more keen on the edge cases. He just asked me to write the function which takes head as an input parameter. I solved the question in like 20 min and in the rest of the time he explained me the nature of the work at Bloomberg and gave me a chance to ask any questions. Over all the interview went good. Next day I got a mail stating a reject. They did not mention any specific reason for the reject
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Flatten a 2D linkedList . A node contains 3 parameters namely, data , pointer to left, pointer to down . The aim of the function is to flatten the linkedlist.
Ex: 1-->2-->4
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V
3
Answer is 1-->2-->3-->4
Ex: 1 --> 2--> 3--> 4
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5-->6-->7
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8 9
Answer is 1-->2->5 -> 8 -> 6->9 ->7-> 3-> 4
He asked me to make the same linkedlist flatten not to create a new LinkedList or print the elements
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