Overall, it was a positive and professional interview experience, though the interviewer was on the stricter side. Unfortunately, I was dealing with an illness and wasn't able to prepare as thoroughly as I wanted to, which left me feeling a bit off throughout the conversation. Despite not feeling my best and facing a tough interviewer, the process was well-structured.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Nov 2015
Interview
The phone interview took about 45 mins. The interviewer and I went to the same collaborative editing website. The interviewer firstly asked some questions about my resume and then asked something about the Linux commands, then introduced a question related to the implementation of the command. After that, the interviewer asked an algorithm question. Finally, I asked the interviewer a question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Write a function to implement the "cat" command in Linux
2. Find the first character that only appears once in the whole string
Fairly simple. Phone call then onsite. For onsite it was 10 min office tour follow by 1 hr interview then 1 hours system design and 30 mins manager interview. Interviewers were nice and the recruiter was accommodating.
5 rounds first 3 being leetcode coding ones and the last 2 being behavioral. The first three are the hardest asking mainly taggeed questions and the rest are not that bad