process bloomberg final

[granite turret]

mr @fresh nimbus were you reached out to?

[fresh nimbus]

Yes 2x but I also got the intern offer last year

asked for expedited process because of that

[granite turret]

you're goated congrats 👏🏼

[fresh nimbus]

Thank you

[slender estuary]

taking bbg over dropbox?

[fresh nimbus]

what would you do

[ebon loom]

id take bloomberg

[fresh nimbus]

Why

[fresh nimbus]

bru

what type of question is that

[cursive river]

damn didn't realize you could do tht

[fresh nimbus]

This was my plan all along never planned on interning there

[cursive river]

😂😂😂

[cursive river]

Why not tho? Better offer?

[fresh nimbus]

Remote, no state city death taxes in cali or ny or nj locations they have

[cursive river]

i do not understand this sentence ngl

[fresh nimbus]

i dont care about living in ny

dropbox is remote

i live in florida

meaning no state income tax

[cursive river]

Ohh you got Dropbox? Big W

Id do the same ngl

I loved Dropbox interviews last year can’t wait for them to open NG

[granite turret]

What are they like? Stripe style?

[cursive river]

The OA was genuinely fun, in terms of stripe I’d say it’s a much much harder version of what stripe asked, but same energy, I.e a something you might see a real engineers working on in the real world, but still challenging

The onsite was one leetcode type question and one debug session

[granite turret]

Daammmnnnnnnn

Stripe time crunch was brutal but I liked the question

[cursive river]

Not even trying to brag but stripe was that easiest I’ve ever done, I just got unlucky cause my recruiter got laid off

In the same vein, Bloomberg is the hardest interview I’ve ever done,

[granite turret]

do you remember what your OA was? The questions are rng

[granite turret]

LC hard?

[cursive river]

Medium, someone told me to Google Dropbox questions and I did, i got one of them word for word, but with 2 twists/follow ups after initial solve

[slender estuary]

why tf are u interviewing with bbg then

3 day RTO in nyc

[cursive river]

Oh shit nvm this was for Dropbox

[granite turret]

LOL that's good to know

[cursive river]

Bloomberg 22 was the second technical interview Ive ever did and I was very very unprepared

It could’ve been an easy for all I know, back then leetcode to me was a site you hopped on once a year for giggles

[granite turret]

btw what's your XP that you're landing dropbox and BB interviews?

[cursive river]

It was currency conversion/transaction time calculation

[cursive river]

Been coding since a teen and have a few projects out

Just did my first actual internship this summer

(Sorry got hijacking thread lol)

I think got Bloomberg back door this year cause I spent all year connecting to recruiters on LinkedIn so I might’ve popped up first when they started searching

[granite turret]

ah good ol bellman ford

[granite turret]

t10 school or nah?

[granite turret]

that's so clutch tho I wish I harrassed more recruiters lmao

[cursive river]

Nah lol it wasn’t any algorithm just a couple of statements

[granite turret]

oh lmao nvm

[cursive river]

Like it could’ve been an intro to programming homework question ngl

[granite turret]

LOOOOOL omg

[cursive river]

State school in Kansas lol

[granite turret]

You're goated

👏🏼

[cursive river]

It was for an app that tells students which companies were a match for them lol, so I already had a conversation topic + showing off skills in one go

[granite turret]

Is it through Handshake?

My school does not have these hookups

[cursive river]

I had to buy the Max LinkedIn subscription cause regular didn’t cut it

[granite turret]

LOOOL I see

[cursive river]

Nah it was a personal project

[granite turret]

👌🏼

[fresh nimbus]

you know you can negotiate offers right

[fresh nimbus]

Right the OA is very cool

The interviews were very practical tbh

[fresh nimbus]

Bloomberg was hardest??

[fresh nimbus]

Thsts the one that’s basic dfs/bfs right

Like the one to convert USD to JPY etc

Or like the maximum conversion possible from start to target

[granite turret]

So it is bellman ford 😅

[fresh nimbus]

Bro if you think that’s bellman idk what to say lol

It’s a dfs with a max variable lol

[granite turret]

No cycles?

Not all conversions are possible you could hit a cycle

[cursive river]

lol yea I was only a cs minor back then so ds and shit weren’t first priority

[cursive river]

Yup

Yeah I just double checked, the solution takes 1 for statement, 1 if statement and 1 if else

I also realized I took both in the same day lmao

[lucid lynx]

@cursive river whens ur final?

[cursive river]

my initial is this week lol, haven't taken it yet

[lucid lynx]

nice nice, lemme know how it is bc same

[granite turret]

is the initial recruiter chat or technical?

[cursive river]

they sent me a hackerrank link with my confirmation so I assume technical

[granite turret]

dope, enjoy