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Updated Apr 17, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Apr 17, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in New York, NY (took 8 weeks)
It took a long time to get the skill test and phone interview. The recruiter at my college told me to go online to take a skills test but I could not find any. All I found was the job search online so I appied online. About 3 weeks later, I get an email saying that I have 3 days left to take the skills test.. Eventually they sent me a link to the test and was notified about 3 days later that I had a technical phone interview. This interview took about a week to setup and another week before it happened. Interviewer was quite nice, a little difficult to understand. He jumped straight to technicals. 2 days letter, I get an email about an on-site interview which took about another 3 weeks to arrange. I had no idea it was a panel interview until 3 days prior. The people who greeted me at the building were very friendly. The atmosphere was awesome; everything was very open. My interviewers were also very friendly. When it got to the technicals, they sometimes digressed and asked very specific questions about certain parts of my answers. So make sure you know what you're saying and be ready to expand on the specifics of your answer. For example, if you mention using a HashMap, you should already know a bit about them .. how they work, when they should be used, etc..
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Skills Test, a Group/Panel Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 26, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in New York, NY (took a day)
I applied for the position on Bloomberg Careers website and I got email after a week saying I have to give technical assessment test. I got through test and I have phone interview on 28th .
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The interview consisted of a Skills Test.
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Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 21, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
Bloomberg came to my campus. There were two 1:1 30 minute technical rounds on the first day. Questions were typical algo/data structure type: finding loop in a linked list, hash map implementation and performance, intersecting linked list, problems on binary search tree and choosing the smallest age at a given time in a dynamic number of ages (heap) . I chose Java for my coding solutions.
After clearing these rounds, I had another 45 minute tech interview the next day. More challenging questions like ipod shuffle function and more algo/DS questions. This was followed by an HR round and a manager round. Thought I performed well, but I got no reply in 3 business days. I mailed my recruiter and she informed the decision - Reject! No feedback on interview was provided.
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Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 13, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
The interview process consisted of:
1. sending your cv through their careers website
2. completing an online computer science / programming test
3. three interviews on-site
1. Not much to say about the first phase, you send the documents and they get back to you - possibly with a link to their test (for which you have about 3 days to complete).
2. The test consists of 30 multiple choice questions (5 answers). There's 3 minutes for each question and you can't go back. I don't know if speed is a factor in your assessment. At the end of the test you get your result. Again, in a couple of days they get back to you and if you were successful, they invite you to their office.
3. The first interview is with two junior developers, the second with a senior developer and the final one is with HR.
The technical questions involve much rather low-level concepts. Implementing compilers, garbage collection, data structures, solving algorithmic problems, analysing complexity, memory management in C is a basic list of issues that we've covered in the two interviews. Know your stuff and be confident - they will challenge your choices and decisions even if they're right. They want to be sure you know why you made your choice, that there is a good reason and that you can explain that reason.
Generally, I liked the process very much. It's down to earth, you don't need to write a novel answering pointless questions in a 50-page application form, the technical questions aren't concerned with knowledge of syntax but with concepts. The people I had contact very extremely nice and provided exhaustive answers to all my questions (a lot of them).
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Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 12, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took 4+ weeks)
Was selected for the on-campus interviews after being asked few questions during the University's career fair. Had 2 on-campus 2:1 interviews. Both were technical. Was told that I had been selected for the final round at their headquarters. Had the final round with a senior manager from Bloomberg R&D. I thought that the interview went well. Got the rejection email after a couple of days.
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Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 4, 2012 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in New City, NY (took a day)
The hr is very nice. However, I was not well perpared. There is one question. How to find out a certain number in a link of number.
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Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 8, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
Talked to Bloomberg at University technical job fair, the recruiter liked me and asked me to come in for an interview later. First round consisted of 2 on 1 interview, fully technical. N people seated at a round table. Remove every Kth person, until only one remains (code solution). Populate the siblings of children in a tree.
Second round was with team leader. Logic based questions, and questions on STL, more problems, and questions about my experiences in the past.
Asked to come in the next day as well for 2 other interviews, one with HR, and the final with another senior developer in R&D. One technical question on a current problem they were facing, why bloomberg, talked about salary and details. Recieved offer immediately after that round.
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Very generous offer, relocation stipend as well. Flown to NY for a tour day.
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Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Nov 21, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took 4+ weeks)
Had an initial phone interview - was asked about a problem. In an array of 1..n numbers 2 numbers are missing. Find those.
Design of cache.
Then was flown to NYC - 1Hr interview by a group of 3
Questions - find intersection of 4 sets, flip a tree and a few design related questions
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Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Nov 13, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took 3 weeks)
Got an interview from the Career Fair at my University. The first and second rounds consisted in 1:1 interviews. Strictly technical. The third and final round was with HR. No technical questions, two 1:1 interviews.
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Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Sep 15, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
Two guys interviewed me at school's career center. They kept asking me questions about C++ even though I told them it was not my primary language. Then I was given a programming test. They were even picky about the name of the variable I gave.
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