I applied through university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Berkeley, CA) in Sept 2018
Interview
I applied to Bloomberg on the career fair and received on-campus interview in the next Monday. On-campus interview was on the same week as I received the invitation. So the time is very tight. It was a 1-hour interview with around 10 minutes background check and 50 minutes coding. There were two questions, both in Leetcode. One easy, one hard. There were three engineers.
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.