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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 21, 2011 — 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 2011 (took a day)
An online test on technical skills - some questions are quite far-fetched and generally not a great test. Then a 3 hour on-site interview with three technical staff and HR. Great work environment and very friendly place. Technical questions are not hard as long as you understand the basics of algorithms and some C. So pointers, stack frame etc, and data structures and algorithms, heap, list, tree, hash etc. Good luck.
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 21, 2011
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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 2011 (took a day)
asked abt pipelining, bit manipulations, page table, memory hierarchy,
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 21, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took 3 weeks)
Submitted resume at career fair, received an email for on campus interview. Interview consisted of a short simple 15 minute interview in the morn, followed by a longer hour + session in the afternoon. The afternoon session consisted of two different interviews. Morning interview was a simple coding example, afternoon inteview was average. In restrospect, it was kinda fun or it would be in a class or other setting. At this point all questions are from glassdoor, careercup or programming interviews.
Got an email for another round, but other obligations made that impossible, therefore I got an onsite interview.
Onsite consisted of one hour with two developers, where they asked me about my research/programming experience. They left to confer with my recruiter, about ten minutes later I had a somewhat hostile one hour interview with an employee, who eventually told me he was a manager. I was asked a few behavioural questions; Are you ready to leave? Did you enjoy the easy questions? What are you looking for in a job? Followed by a coding question. After which he asked if I had any questions about Bloomberg, after a short discussion he left. About 15 minutes later the recruiter showed up and did the HR run through, after which she showed me out.
Got an odd vibe from Bloomberg, like my fly was open or I was the annoying talkative dude on the plane. Doubly weird because everyone else seemed to be enjoying themselves.
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Eventually simplified to write a binary search based function to find the square root of a number
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 15, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in New York, NY (took 3 weeks)
non-cs background.
On line test, focus on IQ and logic
Phone interview, talking about the current project, and one problem solving question.
On-site, 1:1 interview, hr, manager, technology question, basic concept, IQ test, and basic behavior questions.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Skills Test, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Group/Panel Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 15, 2011
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 (took 2 weeks)
Applied through college career site.
Emailed me a few weeks later about taking an Intelligence Test, which was of average difficulty, some simple questions, some doozies like on a MENSA test, some annoying ones about finding the number of "h"s in a paragraph etc etc. Apparently I did well enough.
Got a request for a phone interview a week or so later. The phone interview consisted first of talking about certain projects and work experience on my resume, then some programming related questions based on my couple of programming courses, and a couple of brain teaser/puzzles. Use techinterview(dot)com for an excellent resource for these types of questions. I wasn't quite able to answer one of the questions fully, but I talked through the entire thing and got frustratingly close. Very nice interviewer though, helped me out on questions I struggled with.
Invited for an on-site interview, where they flew me in and put me up in a pretty nice hotel a few blocks away from the office. Very nice building, great atmosphere, glass doors in all the meeting rooms, cool stuff. First interview was with 2 software devs, who grilled me on a lot of C++ concepts (especially memory management and pointers), that I claimed to know from my self-study, but realized very quickly that I really didn't have a grasp on. it was very difficult for me, but should be a cakewalk for most people experienced in C++. I personally thought I did terribly on this portion of the interview. Be ready to write code on a notepad. One of the interviewers was really nice and helpful, the other seemed like he was having a bad day, and my inability to answer some of his questions quickly seemed to frustrate him even more.
Next was a 1:1 with a manager in R&D, who asked me more brain teasers and a few more programming questions, which started off badly like the first interview, but got progressively better.
Finally, there was a 1:1 with someone from HR, who asked a simple data structure concept question, but focused more on my resume, past experience, and other typical HR questions. He was really relaxed and put me at ease after a rigorous first couple of rounds of interviews.
Advice: Brush up on whichever programming language you are most comfortable with. Don't lie about this! Like very basic theory and syntax, and those little nuances that you might be asked on an AP CS test or an intro CS test in college. Even if one of the on-site interviews goes badly, regroup between rounds and knock the next one out, and they will vouch for you (believe me...)
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Group/Panel Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 14, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)
Applied for a number of positions at the company on their website, received individual emails rejecting me for each position other than one. then emailed for phone interview, then in person interview which they flew me in for. They offered to fly me round trip and provide a hotel room near their manhattan office. Office building is quite impressive, company is all about their open corporate culture, office has incredibly small number of walls.
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 10, 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 Feb 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
I am not a CS major, so they don't ask many difficult questions.
1.Dynamic resource management: difference between stack and heap, vector is stack or heap?
2. How to revise a const int value?
3. find intersection of two arrays
4. brain teaser.
Overall I think they are hiring more people than last year so they decrease the difficulty. What I met is less difficult than the questions I search online. Good luck to every one.
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 8, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
I had two rounds of interview. The first round was going well and there were no bizarre problems. They first asked me to design a tree data structure for storing and retrieving stock prices fast, and then asked a few basic questions about arrays, linked list and hash table. Finally they asked me to design a phone book. I failed on the second round because they had a pressure test on me -- I didn't know it was a pressure test until I went home and found out that the program I wrote in the interview, in which the interviewer insisted that there was bugs, was correct. It was my first time seeing this kind of test and thanks for bloomberg for giving me this experience.
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Mar 1, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in New York, NY (took 4+ weeks)
I got a IQ test right after I applied this position. Several days later I had a phone interview which consists of simple C++/algorithms questions. Hours later I received the invitation to the onsite interview. Bloomberg took care of you very well including booking flights, hotels, airport pick up. The final round was weird because I thought I did well but I did not even have a chance to talk to the manager. Good luck to other applicants!
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 28, 2011
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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 Aug 2010 in New York, NY (took 3 weeks)
first there's an online test, in which you can choose C or C++ or Java
then the phone interview has a lot of c++ questions
in the last get the onsite. the working environment is very nice with free food and drink.
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