As a new grad with offers from Google, Facebook, Goldman Sachs and their ilk (as well as a previous offer from Bloomberg which I turned down), I can say with complete confidence that this was the most incompetent interviewer I've ever encountered. Even the logistics were embarrassing. He called me more than twenty minutes late, completely unapologetically. And that was only because I emailed HR asking if the interview was still on. Unlike most, this interview's coding section went flawlessly. The question was trivial and its implementation was too. The interviewer seemed constantly confused by design choices (and generally unlikeable, although that may not be relevant). He then proceeded to ask me questions about topics which were not on my resume, some of which I had (by chance) happened to take classes on, and some of which I knew almost nothing about. The experience left me with only two words to say: Good riddance. The technical interview questions to come in a separate post.

Why Bloomberg?