Hi y\'all\n\nI have religiously followed leetcode \'discuss\' to prep for my Bloomberg onsites and other interviews. Time to give back to the community , though I got my rejection mail yesterday.\n\n**Role** : Software Engineer \nExp : 1 yoe\nTimeline: \nI had applied on the portal during mid March.\nRecruiter approached : 1st April\n**Phone screen** :  26th April (I got it postponed to 12 May 2021 as I got covid in the last week of April).\n 12th May . Got https://leetcode.com/problems/design-underground-system/ . Discussed the whole solution first with the interviewer who by the way was very terse. Coded it out pretty fast. (I had done this question before , thanks to leetcode discuss). Had a couple of follow up questions, like why long why not int in your map? What if station name had a space in it? Simple follow up questions which I was able to answer.\n\nReceived this on May 17 th "Thank you for taking part in an interview with us! I am pleased to let you know that the feedback is positive and that we would like to proceed to the next round."\n\n**Onsite Round 1:** (27th May) \n\nThere were two interviewers.  During the first 10 minutes they introduced themselves . For 6-8 minutes I did my introduction which included answering questions like \'Why bloomberg\', \'My software engineering experience\'\n\n\n**Question 1 :** \nhttps://leetcode.com/problems/number-of-islands/ had done it before, pretty simple. explained it well. \n\n**Question 2 :** \nThis was new. \nGiven some numbers [3,5,7,8,10], and interval list : [1,6,15] , they wanted to know how many numbers occur between each interval . The answer for this example will be : [2,3] i.e [1,6] -> [3,5] and [6,15] -> [7,8,10]. \nI clarified the interval assumptions. the boundaries inclusivity & exclusivity. I gave a binary search related answer, after sorting out the numbers. Collaborated perfectly during the entire time. \nThe Solution I coded out : \nFor each element in intervals list , using Binary search get the index of element just less than or equal to the given element \n\t\t\t\t\t\teg for intervals [1,6,15] : [-1,1,4] \n\t\t\t\t\t\treturn the difference array : [(1-(-1)),(4-1)] : [2,3]\n\nReceived a rejection mail on 1st June. I really can\'t wrap my mind around why i have been rejected. And due to the pool of applicants being huge, they dont provide you feedback too :p  \nPS : Got a feedback call scheduled later next week. \n\n

Hi y\'all\n\nI have religiously followed leetcode \'discuss\' to prep for my Bloomberg onsites and other interviews. Time to give back to the community , though