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 online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Sep 2010
Interview
Interviewer started with asking about my project, but soon became disinterested. Later we talked about data structures and algorithms. He asked about sorting algorithms and their complexity. Then he asked about how will you design a telephone book. He then went into UNIX and asked some commands related to file modifications.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What kind of data structure will you use to implement a telephone directory?
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