Application
I applied to Bloomberg on their careers website and emailed the recruiter that contacted me earlier in the year when I applied for the 2022 position, in order to speed up the process. Received an email a few days later to schedule a technical phone interview.

Phone Interview
1 hour interview, 20 minutes reserved for talking about each other, my current job etc. The other 40 min were used for a coding challenge. He asked me to code a medium level LC380 problem, although the problem’s statement was a little bit different, the coding part was basically the same. Coded it in 35 minutes while answering questions about my code. Had just a small mistake that he pointed out and I solved it quicky. 5 min used for questions, I asked if Bloomberg has any products that target directly the consumer and not companies.

Received positive feedback a few days later and was asked to schedule an interview day.

Interview #1 – Data Structures & Algorithms
The duration was 60 minutes. The interviewer came on time. We used the first 15 minutes to present each other and ask a few questions about each other. She asked only one behavioral question: Why do you want to work for Bloomberg?
She proceeded to ask me LC797. I solved the question quickly, but she notices that I used a LinkedHashSet. She became intrigued so she asked me to design a MyLinkedHashSet class. I got to implement only the put method and she seemed happy with the answer. Based on my design, she also asked a basic question: How does a BinarySearchTree works?

Received an email 30 minutes later with a positive feedback. They apologized for not being able to schedule the next interview in the same day, as we spoke, so she asked about my availability for the upcoming Mondays and Wednesdays.

Results
The rounds of interviews took part in November, I messaged the recruiter 2 or 3 times since, if they managed to schedule my interviews, always getting the same response “We are working hard to schedule interview slots…”. I know people who started interviewing in January and already received an offer. A lot of time lost for nothing.