I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2018
Interview
Applied online, and was contacted a week later to schedule a technical phone screen. The phone screen consisted of solving 2 easy to medium problems on a shared code editor within a span of one hour. I was able to do both, and was invited for an on-site interview in New York pretty quickly.
The on-site interview consists of a quick tour of their office followed by 2 technical interviews. The first interview was with a junior developer and consisted of a couple more data-structures/algorithms questions. The second was with a senior engineer who asked a more open-ended data-structure/algorithms question. Unfortunately, I panicked at this stage and couldn't quite answer the question, though the interviewer tried to give me some (not so helpful) hints. I was escorted out of their office abruptly right after that interview, with no real feedback given or time to ask questions, and received a rejection email the next day.
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.