O processo levou 2 dias. Fui entrevistado pela Bloomberg em out. de 2009
Entrevista
Had a telephonic interview first by 2 people who asked all C++ basics. Asked to design a simple object oriented hierarchy using any real world example. Then had a face-to-face. Met with 4 people one after the other. Got lot of questions on data structures using trees and their algorithms. Failed this one.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
What data structure would you use or design to implement a suggestion box for a user searching for someone in a telephone directory
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
Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Bloomberg (New York, NY).
Entrevista
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