I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Mar 2017
Interview
Got an email from HR to give my availability for a phone interview. The interviewer asked me about my resume and one question on HackerRank screen share(it's a text editor not a compiler). The interview was good and I answered the question in time and got a reject next day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Validate a custom binary tree.
1. For every even level the numbers are odd and aligned in descending order from left to right
2. For every odd level the numbers are even aligned in descending order from right to left.
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