Bloomberg | New Grad | April,2020 | Reject

Degree: MS in Software Engineering
YOE: 1 yr as Full time at a Startup in India and 10 months as Intern in USA
Position: New Grad
Result: Reject

Applied on : March 1,2020

Got an email to schedule Initial Phone screen.

Phone Screen:

• About my previous projects and about Bloomberg (10 minutes)
• Inorder Traversal (Recursive and iterative) (10 minutes)
• Find Bottom Left Tree Value (10 minutes)

Virtual On-site: 2x60 minutes
Round-1

• Introduction and questions about my projects (10 minutes)
• First Unique Character in a string and follow ups on why char array is better than HashMap in this scenario (20 minutes)
• Flatten a multilevel doubly linked list explained both recursive and iterative solutions and coded the iterative one (25 minutes)

Round-2 (Interviewer arrives 7 minutes late)

• Introduction and questions about my projects (10 minutes)
• Instant Run off Election (25 minutes)
• Largest Rectangle Histogram Just explained him the stack apprach could not code it out as interviewer stopped me by saying we don't have enough time. (10 minutes)

And later, he said recruiter will contact me in few days.(At this point I understood it's is a reject)

Today I received an email that its a reject.