I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Oct 2018
Interview
One phone interview with a simple base conversion problem, then invited for an on-site in the London offices. There were two interviews, one technical and one with a senior engineer and HR; the first interview consisted of three simple algorithmic problems, whereas the second one involved switching back and forth HR questions with a systems design one. The systems design question was not hard either. The last interview ended soon after discussing my academic plans for the future.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Given an array of integers, such that their product is also a 32-bit signed integer, replace each element of the array with the product of all elements besides it.
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.