Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un'agenzia di reclutamento personale. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Bloomberg (New York, NY) nel mese di ott 2014
Colloquio
1st Phone interview -
- Given a array of numbers and sum k, find a pair in the array that sum to k
- Give an algorithm to print the paragraph of text based on the screen size
2nd Phone interview -
- Find the m-th last element in a linked list
- Given a large collection of characters(collection will have duplicates as well) and a dictionary, find an efficient algorithm to return the 10 longest words you can form using the characters in the collection. If a character is used in a word, it cannot be used in the next word.
On site Interview -
1st round -
Given meetings schedule of the participants. Find a slot when everyone is free
2nd round -
- Each node has up, down, next pointers. Up points to a number less than self, down points to number greater than self. All the nodes are sorted. Flatten the linked list such that it has only next pointer and all the nodes remain sorted.
- There is an inflow of ticker symbols and prices. Maintain min, max, last 5 prices seen
- Decrypt a string of text. You are given a dictionary and a method that returns a score for a character which is less than 1. If we sum of the scores of all the 26 characters we get 1.
3rd round - senior manager
There are 100 people sitting in a circle. Every second person is opted out. Who wins.
4th round -
Casual discussion with senior manager
5th round -
HR talked about experience through out the day and salary and benefits
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Altre recensioni di colloqui per Senior Software Engineer presso Bloomberg
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
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Bloomberg (New York, NY)
Colloquio
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