I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2016
Interview
It was phone interview, the very first round.It consisted of one technical question where you have to describe how you will approach it in most efficient way and then implement it.The interviewer called on time. He was very polite,helpful and friendly.First he asked me the most general question, tell me about yourself. Then he discussed some things from my resume.
After that he went to the technical question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical Question:
It was based on e-commerce setup. So there are n Order receiving servers which are receiving orders from customers and there is one another server which fetches orders from the these servers and processes them in sequence.
n order receiving servers ( each server has m orders):
A : 1 3 6 ...
B : 2 5 7 9 ...
C : 4 8 10 ....
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There is no collision when order receiving servers are receiving orders and the orders are queued up on these servers.
The Order Processing server need to process these orders in order, means the server will process order 1 from server A, then 2 from Server B, then 3 from Server A and so on...
How the Order Processing server can do this in most efficient way? Also implement the setup
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.
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