Coding Interview | Software Engineer @ Bloomberg (Part 1)

Which one is interviewer and which is interviewing

this is all i need to be able to do to get a $300,000/yr salary? lol

i hope one day i am senior enough that i get to be the interviewer and refuse to do any of these sorts of algo tests or bullshit questions like "what is your biggest weakness". i want to ask "tell me about how you'd rather get shit done in 2 hours so u can work less, but still get the job done properly"

I've been a software engineer for 751 years, used Java for the past 95 years and U've never ever needed to write a binary search function.

The interviewer is fair enough😊

I would love to have an interviewer like him. Great guidance and very open

i would fail simply because of the accent.

AI. enters the room

Why would yo do that at the interview, if day by day at work as software engineer you will never do? :D ( asking from Front End perspective developer )

I’ve been a not software engineer for 20 years. I don’t know What the fudging thing is about but this seemed like a pretty cruel interview. Geez…

Nice interview! did you end up getting a job?

its my 18th year in software field.. Just out of a curiosity which part of the globe someone can assess a developer by this such questions..

To all potential candidates who want to be software engineers, I would advise you to not consider a position if they want you to do coding live during the interview. This nonsense only persists because we, the potential labor pool, allow it.

I'm Software Engineer for 11 years, coding daily and never needed for BSF.

I've been trying to learn to code for 10 years now. I can get hello world to print. Definitely to stupid for coding. Looks fun and entertaining but not for everyone.

I think the code will break when passed 20 as inputnode and consider 25 is not in a tree, then in 48 it will crash, because in line 44 the parent become null because there is no parent for 20.

Would be helpful if the interviewer spoke clear English!!!

Smart People but very socially awkward holy shit

this is really helpful, it's cool that you recorded this and posted so i know what i will be facing when i advance my coding skills to look for another job

why the heck are you testing people against something they'll never have to deal with in their life instead of testing them against something that's important on the job you're hiring them for? Binary trees - trash question you fail the interviewer test. ask better questions.

One can answer the questions in python or JavaScript right?

i had this one when i was study a course from udemy, the exact same piece of code. Terry is the teacher of that course. this is a very intresting topic

The interviewer is egyptian. I can just tell by his accent.

Never see this in day to day. Total bullshit.

This kind of interview coding questions are junk

Our industry has the most garbage interview process of all industries.

Yall just need to switch career paths because y'all sound like two undergraduates trying to submit an assignment that you're supposed to complete on your own 😂

I got this kind of question for a data analyst position and of course had 0 idea of wtf was even going on. My question is, when in work would you do something like this? What case study?

I had an interview with Bloomberg for an internhip in college... it was awful. I was on a phone call answering questions about linked lists and I couldn't even understand the guy asking me the questions. This seems... marginally better

Computer Science the theory on how to make the hammer... using it will come when you land a job.

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I have been coding for 12 years and 7 working as tech lead. I'd say I've never used a binary tree search at work but.. something simple as HTML, specially working with javascript, you'll need to understand the Document Object Model ( it is a tree ) and how to traverse it

who is the interviewer ?

The solution is wrong, if you came from left side, return pararent is wrong. for examle, if you replace the root 20 to 13, and you want to find the inorder successor of 14, you will find 13 if you use this method.

I'd be using something like breadth first search or depth first search, can't remember exactly which one would have better time complexity.

Imagine you pretend to be a hacker, and then you get into an interview and you cant answer simple hacking questions.

I don't know why they won't allow someone to use Internet to solve such problems. It's completely ridiculous. It's like interviewing for the car driver job but they say' If you can show us that you run very fast, the job is yours.

Wouldn't this fail for <25>?

I would read the whole tree and form a list, sort and return

Great interviewer

Why should we go this ordeal to get a job? This is ridiculous

The interviews are now useless

class Solution{
private:
void solve(Node* root, Node* x, Node* &ans) {
// base case
if(root == NULL) return ;

if(x->data < root->data) {
ans = root;
solve(root->left, x, ans);
}
else {
solve(root->right, x, ans);
}
}

public:
Node * inOrderSuccessor(Node *root, Node *x){
Node* ans = NULL;
solve(root, x, ans);
return ans;
}
};

ohjesus i wouldnt b able to solve this :/

who teh ehll was being interviewed

bullshit

Going to be quite honest here. I worked at one of the top 4 tech companies in the world, and had a bunch of algorithm questions for my interview. It was an advantage that I had a math degree since I breezed through those questions and eventually landed the job. However, I SUCKED as a software engineer my first few years. Didn’t know what the hell tcp/ip was, didn’t know what the hell a majority of other terms were and definitely didn’t really build web APIs before. If someone is passionate about code and can show some of their examples, architecture decisions and optimizations, that should be good enough. These algo questions prove nothing. I understand you can be good at these types of interviews and have experience with a bunch of projects but a lot of great programmers will trip up if asked to find the median in a linked list, ESPECIALLY if timed. Great ideas and software solutions don’t come in a day.