I had a very good experience with the recruiter. I moved to the technical interview stage. The coding interviewer was very inexperienced. I was able to solve the problem but not sure why they decided not to move forward with my application. I think they should spend time to train their coding interviewers on how to conduct interviews. The fact that someone can code doesn't make them fit for interviewing others.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A question about finding the time range of when banks will close.
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Feb 2023
Interview
It started with an HR call and that followed by a technical interview. Technical interview was a traditional data structures & algorithms interview. Follow-up question required to improve the performance. The code written in interview should should compile successfully since it's compiled and tested at the end of the interview. Didn't get any feedback about my performance later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an 2D matrix, find the matrix cell with the maximum number of matrix cells that can be travelled from that cell. You can only move right, left, up and down. You can move until you reach an end of the matrix or an obstacle. Obstacles are stated as 'X', free cells are empty.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Feb 2023
Interview
The phone technical interview was just 1 hour. the first 15 mins was to introduce myself, and the question was to implement a calculator with UI and functionalities. During the interview, I focused on developing functionalities first, however it ran out of time. The next day I received rejection from Bloomberg, strangely, no FEEDBACK!