I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Nov 2017
Interview
I applied early and Bloomberg responded a month later. I took the phone screen which consisted of two hackerrank easy questions over the duration of forty five minutes. I passed and proceeded onto the onsite which was cancelled later.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Dec 2017
Interview
I first passed two rounds of on-campus interviews and was invited to do an on-site interview. After I was brought to the office by an HR, she took a tour with me around the lounge area in the building. The first round interview was done with two HR staff members and the second round interview was done with two software engineers. One of the two engineers was the engineering team lead.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you have a large dataset of English words and you want to store them, what data structure would you need? If you want to retrieve the data in an alphabetical order, how would you alter your data structure? Considering the large size of the data, how would you initialize the data structure? Please write down some pseudocode.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Palo Alto, CA) in Feb 2017
Interview
Very straightforward interview process. Received the interview the morning after talking with the company at the career fair. They asked technical questions over the course of an hour, and it was my job to walk through them on a whiteboard. Didn't get the job, but was asked to apply again the next year.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In general, they asked about different data structures, how to create them, and implement them for certain problems.