I was initially under the impression I was interviewing for a job, but Bloomberg's interview experience was more like a bad version of "Shark Tank" meets "The Apprentice." The unifying factor between both being the utter lack of respect shown toward their candidates.

My phone interviewer flat-out forgot my interview. Even when we rescheduled to a week later, he was 15 minutes late and confrontational about it. We coded some simple questions on HackerRank, which I will go over in the next section. I received an in-house interview invitation the next day.

When we visited on-site, the R&D point of contact was more interested in talking to the candidates about the horseshoe shape of the building and the significance of the Koi fish in the cafeteria than giving us ANY useful information about our interview process. NONE whatsoever.

From what I could glean from other interviewees and Glassdoor, Bloomberg has a four-stage interview. If you fail any of these interviews (the reasons, however intangible, the interviewers WILL NOT tell you), you are escorted out.

Out.

When you say "out," you mean to the waiting area, right? Where the recruiter informs you of next steps? Nope. You're escorted through the elevators, to the lobby, and unceremoniously kicked out.

Now, I've given a ton of interviews and I have another offer, so I know what a tech interview should be like. But this sheer lack of respect is what got to me. Bloomberg seems to think that because college grads are a dime a dozen, it's alright to afford us ZERO respect.

And thank you for the experience, you Fortune 500 megacorp, but I think we deserve better.

Phone Interview:

1. Maximum Sum Subarray Problem. Given an array of stock prices, how will you maximize your profit?
2. Convert a Roman numeral to an integer.