I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Boston, MA) in Jan 2015
Interview
Applied through website. Got a phone screen interview which went went. The lady was quite nice and easy to talk to. Proceeded to technical interview which was difficult and the interviewer was not very friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write code in java to search a file system for duplicates and return the copies.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Jan 2015
Interview
Submitted resume online and got contacted about an interview ~6 weeks later; we agreed to schedule it for the beginning of January. My interviewer didn't call me at the set interview time, and after about a week of frantic emails about a possible mix up I was informed that my interview had been unavailable due to an emergency. We rescheduled for around 3 weeks later. The interviewer seemed disinterested and unprepared (he seemed to be making up questions on the spot). I didn't hear anything from them until I emailed about a week after the interview, at which point I was told that the position had been filled/cancelled. I will not be applying to Bloomberg in the future.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Object Oriented design process. Implement a read-write lock in java.
Applied online. Heard back two days later asking to schedule phone interview to talk and display code on HackerRank. Mostly technical questions, questions/concepts included polymorphism, rotating arrays and sorting names based on last names. Interviewer was nice and friendly, unfortunately couldn't understand some questions because of my weak phone signal.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Rotate array by n elements.
Sort names based on last name.