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Updated Apr 2, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took a day)

Some question related with resume. And a tech question about programming.

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how to find the duplicate number from an array

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Interviewed Mar 2012 in New York, NY (took 4+ weeks)

I got this interview opportunity during my school's career fair. I was offered a first-round interview at the career fair, which took place the day after. I did not prepare much for it; it was purely technical and they focused on my logic and some coding basics. The two interviewers were nice and patient. I got through this round, and was offered a second round interview, which was essentially the same. The interviewers were nice and friendly. After passing this round I was offered an in-house final round interview at their NY headquarter. I was interviewed by a senior engineer and he asked ridiculous questions like if there are 3 bathrooms on a beach and you wanna make sure no more than 2 people can occupy the same bathroom, what would you do. I was like, what???? I simply said "well you need to add a lock to every bathroom!" And then he asked some more questions like that, plus a coding question that I explicitly said I could not do because I did not know much about Hash table. He misled me to the hash table solution and offered no help or guidance. He also asked some behavioral questions like if Google and Goldman Sachs as well as Bloomberg offer me a position, which one would I choose, and if my friend who works at Google recommend that I work for Google, would I go? Some other questions include how I would work to meet deadlines. Overall the interview consisted of mostly ridiculous bathroom questions and ridiculous choice questions.

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If there are 4 bathrooms on the beach and 2 for men and 2 for ladies, how would you implement it so that each bathroom is efficiently used.

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.

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Interviewed Feb 2012 in New York, NY (took 2 weeks)

first asked me a linklist question: how to delete an assigned num in a linklist (it might not in the linklist, or it may repeat occuring)

then asked me a brainteaser like question. Give me some functions, and asked me how to design an operation system for the machine.

Overall, the interviewers are quite nice, they'll give you hint if you dont have a clue. I think they are more likely to find someone who knows how to solve the problems rather than someone knows coding.

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how to delete an assigned num in a linklist (it might not in the linklist, or it may repeat occuring)

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 3 days)

Applied to the non-computer science position. Prior to interview, I took an online assessment that contained fairly simple logic problems. Went through three rounds of interviews with software engineers and one with HR. Questions began with the usual "why do you want to work at Bloomberg" and progressed to primarily involve logic and coming up with algorithms to solve problems.

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If given two eggs, how can you find the highest floor on a 100 story building at which you can drop an egg without breaking it.

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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took a day)

1. Online test
2. Phone interview based on your resume and education background. Ask brain teasers and some finance questions.
3. Go through your resume and ask quite a lot of technical questions. Most of them are about programming. Then if you passed the first round technical interview, you would see a senior manager and he will ask more about your resume and some harder technical questions.

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52 cards question. What is the probability that get 3 aces in a row?

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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

First round, the interviewer asked several basic questions and checked my background.
Second round, technical interview, code based.

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what is pointer?

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Interviewed Jun 2011 in New York, NY (took 3 weeks)

First, it was on-line programming aptitude test similar to GRE.
After that, a phone interview.
Then, I was invited to a face to face interview. It was kind of short lasting ~ 2+ hours.
First, two low level guys asked some basic questions.
Then, a senior manager showed up with more HR type questions: Why do you want to work here?
What do you expect from this position? How do you handle with pressure? etc.
Probably, they realized that this was my "back up" position since my true goal is the quantitative finance.

It was an OK interview.... these guys do not seem that smart. You can answer these questions if you
have some previous experience and do not require that much of "brain", far cry from a quant-type interview.

This type of positions would be OK for recent CS graduates who want to have something to write down
on their resume.

Ah.... none of the interviewers was able to give me a clear career path within the company. Maybe all the other reviews are true: one reaches the glass ceiling pretty early on. Working with their proprietary software would be detrimental for career development beyond certain point.