I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Toronto, ON) in Jan 2025
Interview
I applied online. Process took 1 month. After initial HR call, one technical round. I was asked medium leetcode similar to parentheses matching problem. Started from basic and then added more complexity.
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Question 1
I was asked medium leetcode similar to parentheses matching problem.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Nov 2024
Interview
I got matched with two teams after a recruiter reached out on linkedIn. Both were pretty standard phone screen interviews. They went over my resume and asked relevant questions about my experience. Basic Java interview questions mostly. Then they asked 1 leetcode medium coding question. and finally a system design question. Overall the interview was not that difficult but I was fairly underprepared and rusty so I did not advance.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Jan 2025
Interview
Recruiter screen, then technical screen where I was asked LC242 (valid anagram) and solved it. Setup the virtual onsite which was 1 technical, 1 "system design" (not really), 1 manager, 1 hr screening.
So I show up to the technical interview and the interviewer asks me questions about previous projects for the first 20 minutes... Then I solved LC20 (Valid Parentheses, with a twist) and with about 18 minutes left in the interview, the interviewer just says "yea I don't feel like asking another question".... Okay?
Same thing for the system design interview, first 20 minutes are the interviewers asking questions about my previous projects. Then, the interviewer took 10 minutes (not exaggerating) to introduce the challenge which realistically could have been explained in 2 minutes. So, I was left with 30 minutes to solve the problem. I started to lay out high-level system design and the interviewers pretty much immediately wanted me to go into database design + schema. That's most of what I talked about and then it ended. They didn't seem interested in normal system design topics, they just wanted to see how you'd design the DB.
I just feel like the interviewers shouldn't be asking questions for 20 minutes in the beginning. I also think they should call the system design interview something else because it's not system design, it's DB design. Overall, was not impressed with the interviewers during the virtual onsite.