I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England)
Interview
I applied for a software engineering intership/placement role in London, UK.
The process started with a phone interview invitation received ~1 week after submitting my CV. The interview itself was mostly LeetCode with a few behavioural questions.
Afterwards, I was invited for a virtual on-site consisting of three parts: coding (similar to my phone interview), system architecture (more about designing classes rather than making scalable systems, surprisingly) and HR (behavioural questions only). I had to pass every part one-by-one, so each part was scheduled separately.
I was rejected after the final HR stage, but the recruiter offered me feedback, so I knew what to improve in my interviewing skills.
The overall experience was positive for me, but I would slightly change the organisation of an "on-site" . Although I liked scheduling its parts separately, there shouldn't be very long breaks between them. In my case, the parts were always a few weeks apart, effectively increasing the length of the process to 3 months (from CV submission to rejection)!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Bloomberg?
Tell me about your background in software.
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.