Status: MS Final Sem - CSE
Location: NYC
Date: Sept, 2019

So I got a Full time offer at Audible and I want to share all my interview experiences so Far in last 6 months starting from my internship during May - 2019.

I applied in August through LinkedIn and got an email within 2 weeks saying Bloomberg wants to proceed and do a phone screening. I scheduled a phone screening in 2 weeks from there.

The interviewer was friendly and asked my questions from project, past work ex and Why Bloomberg ? Prepare this well !!

Then the technical question was to Flatten a Linked List. I did it using Iterative approach given on Discussion in Leetcode. He was very impressed becuase this saves O(n) space.

Got an email very next day to schedule onsite. They booked flight, hotel for one day and gave me 100$ gift card.

Interview was 2 rounds for me .

1. Design a NYC MEtro transit system where given a par such as A:C where both are stops of Metro, we can return the Average time required to travel between these 2 stops.
   I fiished up the solution just in 1 Hr. Interviewer seemed pleased but maybe he expected me to solve in lesse time .

2. Second interviewer again asked some behavioural questions. then he asked me 2 questions:

3. Find peak of Array in O(log n) using binary search. Its given in LeetCode.

4. Design Queue using stacks. Damm !! Here I stumbled. The most easy and standard question in Computer Science. But I told him that I will use 2 stack but couldn't optimize it to make it run in Amortized O(1) time. Interviewer gave me some hints and eventually I came up with the solution but I guess he was expecting me to do It by myself at the very first go .

Thats it. Was escorted out by an HR and I knew that meant a Reject !!

Got reject after 2 days .

This was my first onsite for a full time role so far, and I learned a great deal from it.

Hope this helps !!