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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 4+ weeks)

Applied online, followed by a skill assessment, a phone interview, and finally an in-house interview. The in-house interview consists of 3 rounds, R&D, HM, and HR.

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reverse a string

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of an IQ/Intelligence Test, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2011 in New York, NY (took 4+ weeks)

Had two on-campus interviews that mainly consisted of logic questions and pseudo computer code questions. Following on-campus interviews I was flown to New York for an on-site interview that consisted of two back-to-back 1:1 interviews. The first was with a hiring manager and the second was with an HR representative. I was asked additional logic questions and another pseudo computer code question. Overall they were much more interested in logic questions than actually getting to know me. I was asked very few behavioral questions or other questions at all.

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Using a computer programming script, how would you solve for the square root of an integer which was input by the program user?

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Given 8 pennies, 7 of which weigh the same, and one of which is slightly heavier than all the others - state the minimum number of times you could use a balance scale to determine which penny was the heavier one.

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)

First asked me several behavioral questions ( Why Bloomberg? Why financial applications engineer? etc) Then brainteasers and some programming questions. The questions are not very difficult but since I did not prepare well and I do not come from a computer science background, I did horrible on these questions.

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how to store 100 integers

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 days)

Took an interview for 35 minutes. First 10-15 minutes were about my previous internship and duties performed there. Then given a code to write. It was a simple code wherein you need to strip off some unwanted/stray characters from a string. Did that. Then was asked just 1 question which was difference between malloc() and new(). I could just remember 1 difference. 2 days later got a reject.

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code to remove stray characters from a string?

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difference between malloc and new

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)

Applied online, receive online skill assessment test, waiting for phone-interview.

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A clock is going slow at a rate of 9 minutes per hour, and it's showing the right time now, it's Monday noon, what's the next time the clock show the right time?

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A lot of figure rotation, ask you which one is missing in the process.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took 4+ weeks)

I have left my resume with one of the developers who came to Campus to give a presentation. The HR called me after a week inviting me to my first interview when they are visiting our Campus again.
1st Round: Brain Teasers & Background Check - Was called in for the second round the very next day.
2nd Round: More Brain Teasers and a few Coding related Qs. It went fine and was called in for an in-house interview a week later.
3rd Round: On-site. Was Simple but the interviewer was intimidating and didn't like me for some reason right from the interview started as he was 15 min late to the interview and didn't even answer my questions in the end properly. Obviously, I ended up having a weird feeling at the end of the interview as I didn't know how it went even though I could answer a decent chunk of questions.
Got a rejection mail after a week.
Advice: Prepare well as most of the Qs asked are standard ones but it just boils down to who you are interviewing with in the end.

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25 horse Problem.

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Find the square root of a number without using the standard library function.

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Background Check.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 (took 4+ weeks)

Non-Computer Science major. After 2 weeks of the submission of resume online, I was asked to take a online test. Most of the questions were logic problems. Then I received an email that invited me to a phone interview. I replied them with my available time slots and phone number but there is no reply again. Totally lost about what is going on.

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how many letter "L" in a given paragraph

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2008 in New York, NY (took a day)

Applied online, was contacted by phone from HR to come to the HQ for an interview day in midtown Manhattan. Interview day consisted of tour and presentation, with boxed lunch and a scheduled 45 minute 1:1 interview time. Interview was purely technical, with programming brainteasers and C/C++ knowledge questions.

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Given an unknown function with a limited number of known points, how do you try to estimate the rest of the function?

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jun 2009 in New York, NY (took 4+ weeks)

I initially applied online, and was contact by HR to do an online skills assessment test. The test was easy--it was multiple choice, and consisted of basic math problems, logic problems, and attention to detail. Each question was timed.

I completed this successfully, and was scheduled a phone interview. The interviewer asked about some projects that I had done, and after I mentioned a few, he made up many questions on the spot that related to my projects; why would such and such cause a problem, what if I had tried this instead, why wouldn't doing something a certain way make sense, etc. There was barely any feedback in either the positive or negative direction; the interviewer would often ask if I was sure about the answer I had given.

Following the phone interview, I was contacted for a timed technical test on a programming language of my choice. Difficulty of questions on this test varied very widely, though many were very high-level and heavy on nitpicky details. I assume this test was used mostly to gauge my level of knowledge of the language.

After completion of the test, I was contacted for an in-house interview.

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(Programming Language Test) When casting an object of a polymorphic class from a base class, which kind of cast executes only if it's is valid?

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jun 2009 (took a day)

Ask some question about counting character show up in a paragraph which is strange. Some analytic questions and logic questions. Some of the questions need more time but each question has only 3 minutes. It's an average difficulty. If you like to take such questions, it's just like a game.