I applied online on May 7th. I heard back the next day that they wanted to do a phone screen with HR.

I set up that call, and it all went well. This was when I first noticed that the recruiter (maybe just the HR person) was rude and cold. They were not like the other recruiters I've worked with in my job search process. I didn't think much of it at the time.

From there, I did the tech phone screen on June 3rd. I heard back on June 7th that I'd be moving on to the virtual onsite. I scheduled my onsite for June 17th.

They were very vague about the onsite and said I could schedule a call with the person I first talked to (HR/recruiter?) to learn more. I set up the call for June 11th. They never called... this should have really been a red flag for me, but I still continued.

When I logged into the virtual onsite, I was greeted by two disinterested engineers that immediately just started talking without even greeting me. Throughout the interview, they just seemed disinterested in what I had to say, and many times they were silent after I was done speaking.

The next interview was better, but one of the engineers had a bad internet connection, and so I barely could understand them.

At the end of that interview, they said I could take a 20-minute break and that someone would join the call after that. So I took a quick break and got on the call again. I waited five minutes, no one showed; 15 minutes, still no one... I waited 30 minutes, and still no one joined the call.

I emailed the only contact I had, and luckily, they got back and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, [the recruiter/HR] person was supposed to join the call but got pulled into a meeting last minute. I think you already talked to her today, though, so you're done for the day."

I had, in fact, NOT talked to her yet, AND she failed to show up AGAIN. So unprofessional and completely rude.

I was really thinking I'd like Bloomberg as a place to work, but after this experience, I will never apply again. This was such an awful experience as a candidate, and I think they should really look into the HR/recruiter person I was working with.

I heard back two days after the onsite that I was rejected.

Onsite: Matrix multiplication