I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sept 2017
Interview
I applied through the company's website and after two weeks I received an email to choose a time for a phone interview, After two weeks I made a phone interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1- Introduce myself.
2- Talk about one of the projects from your CV.
3- Why did you choose this project.
4- What is abstraction in java and give an example.
5- Talk about memory management in java.
6- Design a parking system (OOP Question from cracking the coding interview).
7- You have 3 modification to a string (adding, removing or replacing a letter). Given 2 strings s1 and s2 show whether s1 can be converted to s2 by one modification (Also in Cracking the coding interview).
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.