Bloomberg Sr. Software Engineer interview questions

Was contacted by a recruiting company. 2 rounds of phone interviews for 2 different teams, so total of 4 phone interview. Interviewers were reasonable folks and they get back to you pretty quickly. On-site interview for two teams: one team before lunch and second one after lunch. You talk to two people at a time for technical questions. Then talked to teams manager's manager, then his manager, then HR person. Recruiter told me that if you start talking managers then >90% chance that you get offer. Coming from other tech companies (Google, Facebook), I was very surprised with on-site interview process though. 1) They kick you out of the building during lunch. You have to find your own lunch, pay for it and come back. This is the first time seeing such a ridiculous process. Let somebody accompany the candidate to do "lunch interview" and ask candidates to pay for themselves. It's not about money, it's about respect. 2) Interviews can go as long as they wish (50 minutes or 90 minutes). In between interviews you can wait long time. Basically I waited 20-30 minute between each interview wondering if anybody was coming. They know this and that's why they book you for much longer than actually needed. I was asked to come back at 12:45PM - I came earlier to be sure I'm not late (12:30PM) and I had to wait until 1:30PM in lobby. I felt like they didn't care about my time - their time was more important. 3) ) Surprisingly story: HR person told me to just email my meal receipts. But recruiter refused to reimburse for the meals, because Bloomberg "doesn't cover meals". Weird. NYC definitely has different culture than SF or Seattle.

There were two phone screens. One of them was by a panel of people most of which were not technical people trying to gauge my technical abilities. After about a week I was invited onsite. The onsite interview was about half a day and I met primarily with different layers of management as well as internal recruiting. The onsite interview lasted about half a day.