J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Bloomberg (New York, NY)
Entretien
I applied online through their career website and I got en email from their recruiter asking me for 3 possible time slots for a phone interview which would last about 60 mins. I was asked to login to Hackerrank 5 mins before the call and the interviewer logged in and called my mobile right on time as scheduled. He asked me a lot of questions about my resume and asked me to describe the scenarios where I applied all the technologies listed. This took around 20 mins. He then gave me a coding question on Hackerank which wasn't very difficult but because of the various design possibilities, I was the only one who kept asking all the questions and the interviewer would answer me by saying 'do what you think is right', I split the question into two parts and was still working on the second part when he told me we were running out of time. So I added a comment to the code saying implementing part 2 ..... etc and he told me that he doesn't expect me to finish writing the entire code, he wanted to see my approach to the problem. After an hour and 5 mins, he went on to give me another question which was relatively much smaller and required me to write the answers in one line, which I did. He again interrupted me saying he needs to move on to another call and if there were any questions I had for him.
I am waiting to hear back from HR
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Question on creating an array of first names and ordinal number combination from the input and sorting the String array chronologically, if duplicate first names found, sort based on the ordinal number (roman numerals). There were a few constraints mentioned for the sorting to be done.
Another question on writing the various XPaths for a given XML files
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