I applied through university. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sept 2019
Interview
45 mins on-campus interview with 2 interviewers. Spent about 15 mins going over my resume/projects. While this was nice, one of the interviewers wanted me to explain one of my projects in detail, but he didn't have much background in the topic, so I think it took too long, and took away from my interview/coding question time. They expected to get through 2 algo/coding questions within 30 mins, and then have time for questions, which was a little unreasonable, imo. Also, one of the interviewers guided me towards a wrong solution at first, so that was a bit annoying.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a random string, and a vocab dictionary, find the longest valid word that could be created with the input.
15 minutes talking about resume, 45 minutes for 2 medium leetcode style coding questions (using code share), the interviewer was very friendly and communication is even more important than passing all test cases.
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.