The interview process was pretty decent.

There was one phone interview, where we discussed an interest calculator involving some binary search. It was a pretty easy question. I thought I didn't do so well, but they invited me for an onsite interview.

They flew me out to NYC and provided hotel accommodation plus a $100 reimbursement card.

The onsite interview consisted of a group grand tour, followed by two technical interviews. I thought both of them went spectacularly; both interviewers seemed to love me, were super friendly, and really liked my solutions. At one point, an interviewer actually said, "Wow, that's a great answer!"

As the second interviewer was leaving, he told me to stay put in my conference room. I was excited because I figured this meant I did well and they would take me to the HR interview, which is generally a good indicator that you've got the job. After 15 minutes of apprehensive waiting, the recruiter came up and escorted me out without much explanation.

It seemed to me that they rejected me quite arbitrarily. I had done extremely well on the interviews, and yet they didn't bother proceeding. I have seen other reviews mentioning this occurring. It seems like Bloomberg doesn't know how to gather talent very well.

Oh well, it's not really my loss.

Overall, don't get too excited about working there, but if you get the job, it's alright.

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