I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Dec 2020
Interview
Applied online in September 2020, got call for a phone interview in November, interviewed in December as per available slot. Rejected after first round. First round is 1 hr technical interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Why Bloomberg?
2. Coding Question - Search in rotated sorted array
3. Number of changes to make one word anagram of another
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jan 2021
Interview
The question was verbatim from leetcode. Meeting Rooms ii. I solved the coding challenge in three different ways.
The interviewer called my solution a fluke and suggested a nested while loop which I said it was incorrect to use. The interviewer got the annotations wrong on a sorting list comprehension. I felt the interviewer was extremely rude. I would avoid this interviewer; Tina.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of meeting time intervals intervals where intervals[i] = [starti, endi], return the minimum number of conference rooms required.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Nov 2020
Interview
1. Phone Interview -> Intro and 1 Code Question. Made me run all the test cases.
2. Two Video-Based Tech Interviews one after other:
Interview 1 : basic intro, code question, system design
Interview 2 : 2 interviewers, 2 code questions
After that I got Reject
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
system design: Build a system that takes data from a Stock Exchange and displays it on Bloomberg Terminal.
Code Questions will not be from Leet Code, they will be complex in nature and will require you to think about the DS.