I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
One phone interview took around 1.5 hour, It was very good interview, discussed all about my experience and my future vision, then we went to the interview technical question, 2 question mainly were very easy but you have to prepare very well for Java, like Garbage collector.
Then, site interview was too disappointing, interview about 1 hr, 2 very easy question did not show any of the candidate skills, then they told me, done for today, the two days later, an automated mail to tell me, we will not proceed with your candidacy, with no feedback, which was very disappointing
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1 very easy question and asks about the time complexity
1 very easy brain teaser question but without coding.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Nov 2015
Interview
Applied through University Career Fair. Got phone interview 1month later. Passed one round phone interview and go onsite few weeks later.
Onsite: Offered lunch, HR would lead candidates (a lot) walking around the Company before interviewing. One or two employees would come and pick you up for interview (A general speaking is that if there is only one interviewer waiting for you, you are very likely abandoned). Failed after two rounds interviews. (The full onsite has 4 rounds, first two rounds for tech questions, one round for manager and one round for HR. If you do not preform well, HR would ask you to go after two rounds.)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some general interview questions such as differences between C++ and Java, knowledge about C++ like polymorphism.
Also asked about the projects I've done before, but not pretty detailed.
The algorithm questions were not hard. Things like find peak using binary search, intersection of array using hash table, right side view of tree using queue, etc.
Still have no idea about the reason I failed.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londen, Engeland) in Feb 2016
Interview
Telephone interview first and then onsite. The onsite interview took about 1.5 hour, with 3 interviewers(one of them is an observer, he didn't ask any question, and he helped me a lot), and the questions were mainly focused on data structure and memory complexity. If you pass it, you will presumably have an HR interview. I didn't pass the technical round, but the process seems smooth to me, and the interviewers were very nice. I tortured them with my poor coding skills, and I felt sorry for myself and for wasting their time, and I forgot many important things I should've remembered. Don't spend too much time on practicing specific programming problems which is not very useful, and I think one should make sure their preparation covers all the basic knowledge of the language they choose. Anyway, Bloomberg is my dream company, but guess I am not good enough now, and I might try again after I am more prepared.