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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Canada

November 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I first went through a phone interview, which was about 40 minutes.

I was asked to talk about a project I did. I was given two problems to code using the HackerRank interface and a higher-level question about how the merge in mergesort works. None of the code I wrote was run.

I passed the phone interview and was flown to New York City for in-person interviews. It was interview day for a bunch of interns, so we were given a tour.

I then did an interview with two engineers where I was asked about my projects again, and I worked through some problems with paper and pencil. Lunch was provided.

After lunch, I interviewed with another engineer where I was asked to talk about myself a little bit, and I completed another programming problem on pencil and paper.

I did pretty poorly with the in-person interviews and was rejected about a week and a half later.

Questions

Reverse a linked list.

How to merge two lists.

Reverse a string.

Check if a tree is a binary search tree.

Decode a string encoding.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 20 interview experiences for the Bloomberg LP Software Engineer role in Canada.

Success Rate

5%
Pass Rate

Bloomberg LP's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Canada is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive60%
Neutral25%
Negative15%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Bloomberg LP's Software Engineer interview process in Canada.

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