I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Oct 2023
Interview
round 1: 20 min tech chat with engineer, talked about the job and my interests
round 2: about 2 weeks later, short programming question with 2 senior engineers, building a very simple CLI python app.
round 3: same day, they asked me if I had time later for an interview. this time with a not-senior engineer, asked me 2 leetcode questions
round 4: short 20-30 mins with HR
ghosted me for a month then gave a generic rejection
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
round 2: make a wordle app in python, part 2 was to implement hard mode
round 3: a stack question and a tree question, they didn't tell you the data structures explicitly but you should be able to figure it out from the question.
Chat with alumni in the career fair
R1: two lc problems ( bfs + lru )
R2: system design
R3: behavior question
R4: EM asked some questions about the projects on my resume
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The challenges I've faced in my projects and how did I solve the problems
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
I've only done the first round so far. It was 10 minutes of resume diving and behavioral, and then 50 minute technical. They asked easy/medium leetcode question. This was an online interview done over zoom.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Identify a 'coolstring' which has the same frequency of every character.
The entire process was a bit chaotic, I spent a bit of time going back a fourth with my recruiter to schedule the interview by the time i was able to i believe they had already moved forward with a different candidate. My interviewer ended the interview early and had no interest in me at all.