Recently on 25th may 2022 I was appeared for Bloomberg telephonic interview .
it was 1 hour 11 minutes long interview.
Question Asked

1. Tell me about yourself
2. Tell about one project where you felt some challenges.
3. Why bloomberg?

Coding Question
https://leetcode.com/problems/number-of-islands/
i was able to solve question and i explained him about my dfs approach and discussed about Time & space
Complexity .

Follow up quesion-

• Why i have used (&) sign while passing vector of vector in function.
• If i don't use (&) would it impact to my solution and performance
• what if i use const before any variable
• How many copies would be created if i use (&) and don't use it .
• Discussed Edge cases of questions .

I was not able clearly explained him the follow up question but i tried it .He did not seem fine with my answer.

End Question
Do you have any Question for us ?
I have discussed about Bloomberg Terminal and he was impressed by this question.

Result: I Got rejection mail inspite solving prolem .

Reason : Where I lack ~

1. His speacking pace was so fast i was not able catch up with him. only 50% of his words i was getting.

2. I forgot to discuss about edge cases with him.

3. I was not able to tell him in depth basics of c++

4. There was not good tuning between interviewer and me because of communication gap.