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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      6 Feb 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Feb 2015

      Interview

      The interview process is grueling and pointlessly long. A total waste of time. Two phone interviews (about half hour each) followed by essentially an entire day of round after round (I counted 7 rounds) of technical interviews. I was grilled at their headquarters for over seven hours only to get rejected the next day. Each round except for the final (senior manager) and HR rounds were two-on-one. There was a lunch break where two developers buy you lunch and it's supposed to be "the opportunity for you to ask questions", but basically it's just another interview round as they ask you the standard questions about what you worked on at previous jobs, and maybe even some light problem solving questions, but thankfully you don't have to write code over lunch.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1) Write a method to find the lowest common ancestor of a binary search tree. 2) Write a thread-safe singleton class. 3) Design a parking lot system that will return the number of the next open space. Consider how to optimize the solution if the parking lot was gigantic. 4) Design a history system for a web browser that allows the user to navigate forward, backward, and enter a new URL. 5) Write a method that takes a list of strings and returns a list of buckets of anagrams of those strings. 6) If you have a two-dimensional array representing a maze, return a solution for the path from the upper-left corner to the lower-right corner. You can only move down or right. ie: input: [1, 1, 0, 0] [1, 0, 0, 0] [1, 1. 0, 0] [0. 1, 1. 1] solution: [1, 0, 0, 0] [1, 0, 0, 0] [1, 1, 0, 0] [0, 1, 1, 1] 7) If you have an input character array, for example "_ _ _hello_ _ _ world _ _", write a method to return a character array with the leading and training spaces removed and only one space between each word, ie: "hello_world" 8) Describe how you might architect a system for searching across multiple data sets and returning the results to a client. If some data sets came from external sources, how could you mitigate the amount of code that you'd need to re-write? How can you ensure that all the results are returned to the client at the same time? 9) Describe how you might architect a system that receives a constant stream of data (such as stock ticker symbols and prices) and sends this data to multiple subscribers that only want to listen for certain tickers. Suppose there is a massive amount of data and you discover there is a long delay in the data reaching the consumers. How would you solve this?
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      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Build whatsapp from a system design perspective.
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