Two separate phone interviews, each lasting about an hour, were conducted using a pair coding website. This was followed by an onsite interview with two technical sessions and a meeting with an HR person.

Bloomberg conducts technical interviews 2-on-1, and there were many interruptions. It was surprisingly adversarial compared to interviews I've done at other big tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and some smaller companies. Another rather irksome aspect is that they expect coding questions to be solved on small pieces of paper, half the size of a standard 8.5x11. They also asked brain teaser questions, which have generally been proven to be a waste of time. Overall, there were just lots of annoying aspects.

The younger engineers in the first interview were nice but still interrupted too much, while the senior engineers in the second interview were very dismissive. The HR person was quite nice. 2-on-1 technical interviews are awful.

This is a brain teaser where people cross a bridge in pairs with a flashlight in the dark. They walk at different speeds, and the goal is to optimize the crossing time.