J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Bloomberg (Londres, Angleterre) en janv. 2023
Entretien
It was a mixed interview experience for me. Recruiter was fine in the beginning however post the final interview behaved a bit cold. I had first resume screen on phone call with recruiter, then live coding session [first round]. I progressed to the final round - with 2 sessions [1 system design and 1 coding]. Moved fairly quick from first call in first week of Jan to final decision by last week of Jan [4 weeks].
Questions d'entretien [3]
Question 1
First round - LRU cache-based [design implement module for url history]
Terrible communication. Got passed between 3 different recruiters all of whom gave specific dates for updates and blew past them. Descriptions of what would be covered in the interviews are wholly inaccurate (don’t bother reading the PDF they sent to “prep” you, almost none of it came up in any of the 3 interviews I did with them.)
Interviewers themselves were decent but clearly had exact “right” answers they were looking for. What’s the point of a leetcode question where there’s only one way to implement it? What’s the point of a system design interview where you’re having a candidate parse through a complex system that they clearly already know everything about and are just looking for 1-2 EXACT modifications to check off their boxes? Was there even a right answer? I genuinely don’t know what this company was looking for. Waste of time, waste of effort, waste of resources. Avoid, avoid, avoid
J'ai passé un entretien chez Bloomberg (New York, NY)
Entretien
Interviewed with two separate teams. Coding rounds. Leet code style question. The interview went on for 1 hr. Waiting for the next steps. The seem to like link lists and arrays