J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Bloomberg (New York, NY) en mars 2025
Entretien
Matched with two teams and proceeded to the final on-site for both of them. The technical screening was similar to what others have described on here - one to two medium/medium-hard questions to complete. Team may ask some questions on your resume, or just jump right into the problem. There is a very clear disconnect between the recruiters and teams when it comes to the final round - I received a prep guide and had a prep call that very clearly indicated the system design round would be a High Level Design for a distributed system. Come the actual system design interview, the engineers spent about 30 minutes asking questions on my resume and teaching me about financial concepts, leaving me roughy 20 minutes to implement a low level class design for complex financial logic I just learned minutes before in the interview. Had I known the process would be like this, I could have tried to prepare better but I was blindsided due to the inaccuracy of the recruiter prep call and prep guide document. The engineers in my on-site were also completely uninterested in answering thoughtful questions I put together after reading articles and doing research on the company. By the end of the interview, I was no longer interested in working with the team.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Leetcode medium/medium hard questions, low level design question
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