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Updated Apr 19, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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

Sumbit my resume to on campus recruiter. Got email a week later with link to apply online. was asked to take a 30 question online iq test. i passed so then i received a phone interview going over some programming questions. i thought i bombed that but then i got invited onsite for an interview with two of the engineers. they asked me more technical questions and brain teasers which i all got right, but then i got an email saying i didnt get it.

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when will be the next three palindrome dates?

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write out in a programming language of your desire how to sort two different ascending arrays of numbers into a single ascending array

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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)

For the first round of online test, my suggestion would be finishing every question as soon as possible even if there are 3-minute time for each question, dunt over meditate on them. My second round of phone interview mainly focused on technical questions along with some resume based questions. The onsite for me went well, got all the answers right but didnt get the offer in the end. I thought it would be another round of technical questions but it turned out all to be brainteasers.

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Knowledge of heap memory

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How to output last five nodes in order from a singly linked list whose length is unkown

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Interviewed Nov 2011 in New York, NY (took 1 week)

I had two interviews with Bloomberg. The first was an on campus interview consisting of general questions about my programming projects, basic data structures problems, and a brain teaser. The second interview was on site and consisted of two interviews. One was behavioral and the next was entirely about algorithms and data structures.

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The question about dropping two eggs from a 100 story building. I forgot the question exactly, but I remember seeing it on Glassdoor before.

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

Interviewed via Phone Interview. Failed on a couple of questions, the interviewer is really nice though.

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If a 3x3 white cube is painted blue on its face and then cut into 1x1 cube, what are the chances of picking a cube with a blue side from a bag

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Interviewed Mar 2012 (took 4 weeks)

First round, taking online IQ test. Mathematic problems as well as abstract reasoning problems. Second round, phone interview with a current financial application engineer. Asked about probability, brain teaser, and simple algorithm problems. Was asked to attend an in-house interview the next day. Third round, in-house interview with two R&D specialists. Asked why the role and what I would like to do. Then several C++ and algorithm questions. I did poorly on one of these questions.. Later they also asked things relevant to my major(not a CS major) which I answered pretty well. At the end of the interview, I was asked to stay in the room. Thought the I passed and was expecting for the next rounds. Yet the recruiting contact person showed up and lead me out of the building.... Thought I did well on most of the questions though.

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How would you count number of words in a sentence in C++?

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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took 2 weeks)

I attended a Career Fair at my college, I couple days later I received an email asking me to schedule a time for an on-campus interview. The On-Campus interview was pretty easy, just asked me about my resume and some basic interview questions. I received an email a day or two later asking me to take the next step in the application process by completing an online skills assessment. I thought it was going to be easy maybe some basic math problems and count how many times a certain letter would appear but I underestimated it. Yes there was some of those questions but keep in mind each question is timed. You have two minutes to answer each question.

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If there are 7 blue balls, 4 greens, 5 yellow, 2 green and in the first position there is a blue ball and in the fourth is a yellow, and the blues cant be next to another blue and green have to be next to each other, what color ball is in the third position.

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Interviewed Dec 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 weeks)

I applied online for the financial application engineer position since I am not from CS, and got the email to do an IQ test, but was rejected, because I did not finish the test actually.

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logic questions about programming

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

After passing the resume screen, I was contacted by a Bloomberg rep about taking an IQ test. The test took me about 0.5-1 hrs and comprised of logic, math, and teaser questions. After passing the test, I was contacted again about scheduling a phone interview. I sent in my available times and received an email about a week later confirming a time slot. The phone interview lasted about an hour and was technical. I got a programming question and two logic brainteasers. The interviewer was very nice and generally helped me work through the problems, but I even so, I couldn't answer one of the questions. I think this is why I didn't make it past this round (he was dropping REALLY big hints, can't believe I didn't get it).

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My clock is 9 minutes slow every hour. At noon, it tells the correct time. After how many hours will it again tell the correct time?

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

It took 45 minutes. First, discuss my background, experience, my interest and why I choose Bloomberg. Then, 3 IQ/Intelligence questions.

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why you choose Bloomberg?

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Interviewed Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took 3 weeks)

First was an online IQ type test followed by a phone interview. The "IQ test" consisted of word problems, image manipulation questions, word searches and other questions. Have a pen and paper ready because you will probably want it.