J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Bloomberg en août 2017
Entretien
Phone interview with a senior developer.
A programming question was asked and answered (implemented) via a web portal which interviewer can see the implementations directly.
The interviewer was very friendly, however, I was having some difficulties understanding the conversation because of the phone.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
This is a C++ question.
Implement a class StockMarket in C++ that has the two following functions:
class StockMarket
{
public:
void addTrade(string stockName, int share);
- This function keeps track the number of shares transacted for a stock by adding the trade information
void printTop(int numberOfStock);
- This function prints the top numberOfStock stocks that has the highest number of transacted shares
}
And here's a sample calling sequence that uses the above class:
StockMarket stockMarket;
stockMarket.addTrade("GOOGLE", 50);
stockMarket.addTrade("APPLE", 150);
stockMarket.addTrade("GOOGLE", 100);
stockMarket.addTrade("MSFT", 250);
stockMarket.addTrade("GOOGLE", 200);
stockMarket.printTop(2);
Expected output:
GOOGLE 350
MSFT 250
First round was with HR, who were helpful and transparent around details including process, salary range and job expectations. Had a second-round technical screen for one hour. Started with questions around experience followed by a coding problem. I found it challenging but the interviewers were polite, helpful and fair. Unfortunately did not make it through to the virtual onsite, but the process was fair and appropriate to the role.
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