Bloomberg L.P. Financial Applications Engineer Interview Questions & Reviews

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.

Negotiation Details – No Negotiation. They give a standard offer.

Interview Details – Asked me three questions.
1. Use a stack to implement a queue.
2. How to decide if a binary tree is balanced.
3. Find the most frequently number in a linked list of ints.

Interview Details – 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.

Negotiation Details – There was no negotiation.

Interview Details – I was chosen for an interview from a college career fair for this position. The interviewer seemed nice and the questions were not hard, however if you did not know the programming questions there is no chance that you will be offered a position. as an engineering student and not a computer science major, the programing prerequisite seemed unfair, especially when they told me at the fair that it wouldn't be a problem.

Interview Details – Talked to an alumni who is currently in that position in university career fair. Got an on-campus interview right after this career fair, and then applied online. I was interviewed by two Chinese software engineer, who were really nice and instructed me in answering interview questions. Though I have not practiced C/C++ for a long time, previous reviews on Glassdoor and some reviews on data structure and algorithms are pretty useful.

Interview Details – On-campus interview following university career fair. Two interviewers, both computer science people. Very unprofessional, one was wearing torn jeans and sandals and the other was playing with phone/texting during interview. Very young interviewers.

Interview Details – Found position via University Career center and met with representitives at Engineering Career fair. At the fair, they asked basic questions on some programming (why use linked lists vs arrays) and another simple brain teaser while looking at my resume. They then schedule an interview for the next day. During the interview they went over my resume and then asked technical questions that ranged from writing psuedo-code to critical thinking problems.

Interview Details – Applied online.

1 week later, was invited to take an online IQ type test, which was straightforward and mostly knowledge independent (some basic graph theory helps with a very small number of the questions, but not worth spending time on if you don't already know it).

2 weeks after taking the test, I received an email that I was through to the next round, a phone interview, which happened 1 further week later. Phone interviewer was pleasant. Started with general questions about my background, why Bloomberg and the usual stuff then some technical questions. This interview is about knowing data structures and algorithms with minimal emphasis on coding. Nothing to be scared about.

Unfortunately, I blew it by preparing for the wrong thing/nervousness over first interview so no details about later rounds.

Interview Details – First talked with their representatives on a career fair at my university. Then an on-campus interview with one employee from them. Later on got invited to on-site interview. Fly to their New York Office and was led to interview with two people for about an hour. They cared more about technical questions than who I am. Pretty much all technical questions.