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Financial Analytics Analyst at Bloomberg L.P.
Accepted Offer – Reviewed May 7, 2013 New
Interview Details – Applied online and got a call. Had an on campus interview and received the offer two week later.
Interview Question – Mixture of both technical and behavioral questions. Answer Question
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Financial Applications Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Apr 2013 – Reviewed May 3, 2013
Interview Details –
Applied Online - Called for a phone Interview after a month or so. Phone interview consisted of a little background check followed by an algorithms, data structure questions and a brain teaser. Answered all of them - Got an invitation for an in-house interview 3-4 days later.
In-house interview had 4 rounds. From what I understand from other postings, each of them are knock-out rounds. So if you are moving to the next round, its a good sign.
1st Round - Two software developers - Mostly Coding, data structures and algorithm based Qs.
2nd Round - Two senior software developers - Similar to the first round.
3rd Round - Senior Manager - This was mostly a fit interview with a coding question thrown in between.
4th Round - HR - This is a standard behavioral interview. Was given the offer the very next day.
I must admit that they work at a very impressive rate.
Interview Question – Most questions are developing algorithms and data structures for a given problem. Be prepared to write a piece of code on paper. I was asked to do that in all interviews except the phone interview. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – No Negotiation. They give a standard offer.
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Marketing at Bloomberg L.P.
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Apr 2009 – Reviewed May 2, 2013
Interview Details – When I was hired, my manager quickly decided he wanted to hire me. I then had to meet with an HR person and my manager's manager. Once things were cleared through them, I was forced to wait 2 months to meet with the head of the division who interviewed me for 10 minutes on the phone, asking me illegal questions.
Interview Question – If we offer you this job, will you take it? Answer Question
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Project Manager at Bloomberg L.P.
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Sep 2009 – Reviewed Apr 24, 2013
Interview Details – Very professional and detailed to maximize employee longterm welfare.
Interview Question – Can't recall, just know your business skill set well Answer Question
Negotiation Details – I took their first offer, compensation it fine within the company
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Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 18, 2013
Interview Details – Started off by applying to their internship online. Within a day or two, I got an email asking to schedule a phone interview, and I had the phone interview the next week. Phone interview lasted about an hour, interviewer said it went over time a little. Mostly questions regarding simple algorithms to handle information. Know basic data structures such as hash tables, linked lists, etc. After about another week, I was asked to go to NYC for an on-site interview, so I scheduled it through Bloomberg's HR. The process was pretty easy, they pay for the flight and hotel. At the on-site interview, I had 3+1 interviews. First, an interview with 2 engineers for ~1 hour, then a similar interview with another 2 engineers for ~1 hour, then another ~1 hour interview with the manager of the group. These were all completely technical, asked questions of object oriented design, implementing some simple functions, data structures. Then about a week later, I got a call from the recruiting department saying I got the internship.
Interview Question – Given a large dataset of people, distinct phone numbers, non-unique names. How would you store the data so that you could efficiently look up someone's data by phone number? By name? What about partial searches, i.e. a few letters of the name? Answer Question
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Production Specialist at Bloomberg L.P.
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 11, 2013
Interview Details – It was easy, called asked if hours were good. worked through a head hunter agency to get the position.
Negotiation Details – 2 weeks background check took a while
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Declined Offer – Reviewed Apr 6, 2013
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Basic algorithm questions, linked list, find prime numbers, number of zeros in the end of n!. Need to code with paper and pencil. Not very hard comparing to other IT companies.
Object oriented design problem. Not hard, just apply the ood principle and proper design patterns.
Many behavior question such as why bloomberg, what is 5yrs goal, 10yrs goal, how to be a leader.
Interview Question – Josephus problem. Not easy to get the trick if see it for the first time. Answer Question
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Financial Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Los Angeles, CA Jan 2013 – Reviewed Mar 31, 2013
Interview Details –
I submitted my resume on campus and got a call next day. I had an HR round on phone in which they tested my personality and then flew me off to New York.
In new york they took a 1:1 technical interview.Questions started from easy to difficult.
After that there was a round with the Hiring manager who offere me the salary package which i accepted.
Interview Question – Explain the Hidden Markov Model? View Answer
Negotiation Details – There was simple salary offer which i accepted.
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Financial Applications Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Mar 23, 2013
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I met Bloomberg recruiters at the career fair and dropped my resume. I spoke to them for 5-6 minutes but wasn't sure if they liked me or not. They called me the same day and scheduled an interview for the following day at my school campus. The interview was a 45 minute technical interview led by 2 mid-level employees. I stumbled a lot but they seemed to like me. I got a call back the same day to schedule another interview for the next day. It was another 45 minute technical interview led by other 2 mid-level employees. I did really well in this interview and I was called back the same day again to schedule the final interview for the following week (again on my school campus).
The final interview was suppose to be 45 minutes of behavioral interview and a 45 minute technical interview. The behavioral interview was with an HR person and it was very short, it only took 15 minutes. Then the technical interview was led by a high level employee. The questions were difficult, I failed to give the correct answer but the interviewer seemed to like my thinking process. I was told that they would get back to me in a week and I was offered a job a week later. I was given three weeks to make my decision. They also flew me out to visit Bloomberg before I had to make my decision. Their offer was by far the best offer I received, so I accepted the job offer.
Interview Question – Given a matrix where all columns and rows are sorted and an integer k. How would you find k in the matrix? View Answer
Negotiation Details – There was no negotiation.
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Senior Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Declined Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY – Reviewed Mar 26, 2013
Interview Details –
The first step was a phone interview with a pair of developers. Without any background or introduction, the interview proceeded for ~40 minute on technical questions on C++/Linux.
The second round was onsite with 4 different sessions: 2 technical, 1 HR, and 1 the senior manager. The technical interviews were with a pair of developers/team leads and some code was expected to be written on a provided pad of paper.
Interview Question – The C++ questions where straight forward covering design patterns, data structures, and algorithms, include big-O notation for various data structure procedures and performance of sorting techniques. Writing code on a paper is not traditionally how code is authored so you might want to practice, especially as the paper is collected afterwards. Answer Question
Reason for Declining – Salary was not as competitive.
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