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Reporter at Bloomberg L.P.

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Jul 2009 – Reviewed May 24, 2013 New

Interview Details – met with three different editor pus editor in chief

Interview Question – nothing unusual, and the test was cake   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – take it or leave it

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Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.

No Offer – Reviewed May 22, 2013 New

Interview Details – one round phone interview, then onsite, did not prepare well, two technical guys, failed.

Interview Question – questions not very diffucult, just didn't prepare well   Answer Question

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Financial Sales and Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.

No Offer – Reviewed May 21, 2013 New

Interview Details – Was asked to come into New York offices after initial phone interview, a few days later they canceled it without meeting me because they had already hired enough people.

Interview Question – What financial story are you following in the news?   Answer Question

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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.

Accepted Offer – Reviewed May 20, 2013 New

Interview Details – Applied at Senior year at the career fair. They called me after 2 weeks and invited me to New York and had interview and I was offered.

Interview Question – What is the greatest challenge of providing financial information to customers?   Answer Question

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Analaytics Program at Bloomberg L.P.

No Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA Feb 2012 – Reviewed May 19, 2013 New

Interview Details – Invited by email for a telephone interview. Interviewer was from HR and asked very generic questions: walk me through your resume, why Bloomberg, why this position, etc.

Interview Question – Cite an example where you had to think out of the box   Answer Question

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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.

No Offer – Interviewed in Feb 2013 – Reviewed May 16, 2013 New

Interview Details – I submit resume on career fair, and scheduled an interview one week later on campus.
They asked very detailed C++ questions. gave me A{}, and asked questions for this empty class for more than half an hour. questions about constructor, destructor, pointers, everything you could imagine. and the gave me a coding problem, how to decide a tree is a binary tree or not. after coding , asked another question, what about the structure is not a tree, would my code work? we discuss this for 20 mins. the process is so terrible, kept asking questions, so basic, detail questions, no algorithm, no datastructure.
And got rej email two weeks later.

Interview Question – no unexpercted, I heard that they just want C++ programmer. I am a java programmer.   Answer Question

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Equity Data Analyst - Environmental, Social, and Governance at Bloomberg L.P.

No Offer – Interviewed in Skillman, NJ Feb 2013 – Reviewed May 14, 2013 New

Interview Details – Applied online after finding job listing on Linkedin. Received an email about 12 hours after I applied and was scheduled for a phone interview. Phone interview was very at ease and casual questions, more based on interests, why this job appealed to you etc. Was told that I will be passed on to Hiring Manager and that we will keep in touch. Contacted them 2 weeks after phone interview to find out progress, was told that there are many candidates and they are still reviewing applications. Didn't hear back for a month and they never replied to my other communication attempts.

Interview Question – In my case, there was no real difficult answer during the phone interview. I think if I went on farther, I would have had more difficult questions.   Answer Question

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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.

No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 9, 2013

Interview Details – The phone interview was mundane and consisted of typical Data Structures and tell me about your projects type of questions, one good question was to when does the compiler necessarily not make a function marked inline as inline. I was also asked a puzzle.

Was invited for the onsite interview, had my interviewed scheduled at 12:00 pm. Started the interview at around 12:05 pm, the first few questions where the general tell me about yourself and your projects. Then asked me about multithreading and problems associated with it, then asked about when deadlocks would occur. Difference between Semaphores and Mutex, by this time there where two interviewers, one shadow, one fairly senior, enter third interviewer at 12:13-12:15 pm, again, tell me about yourself etc.. The new interviewer asked me how to find the square root of a number without using the square root function, I knew the solution, he however asked me return the closest integer, so I was trying to figure that out, wrote a little code and he suddenly tells that's okay and asks me to write a test utility function for the sqrt function, i.e given a number and a possible guess please return if its actually the sqrt of the number, fair enough, it would just be a simple if else statement once we have used our sqrt function previously written. He had this you-are-wrong kind of face on, I was really worried and got all tensed. In hindsight, I guess he just expected me not to use the sqrt function and return true/false using just the utility function, I feel slightly flustered now, mainly because he could have just asked me that, it was neither a trick question nor a question that required a lot of thought. Anyways, now the senior interviewer asks me how to find if two lists intersect, I explained it to him (the answer is in CareerCup I guess), asked him if I should write the code, he told that wouldn't be needed. Then the other interviewer asks me about String compression, and a simpler version actually, as in aaabbbaacc would be a3b3a2c2, that was simple, told him how I could do it, in the hindsight I feel I should have given a in-place solution ( not a big deal, just required him to ask me a couple of questions on it or clarify if there is an better space efficient code is possible), again, asked him if I should write the code, he says no. The time is 12:52 PM, the guy who came in late wrapped the interview telling its almost time up, I said we could go back to the sqrt function and figure out if the solution I gave would work with a little tweaks (it would work). Then they ask me if I have any questions for them, etc etc. 12:56 PM they wrap up the interview, and they ask me to wait in the room, 15 mins later the recruiter comes in and tells me that they wouldn't continue with the interview. I felt shattered, I did not expect it at all, I did answer their questions. What was depressing was that they judged my performance on a single round of interview, I would have been okay if I actually performed bad, but my performance definitely warranted at-least may be another round to judge me, it was surely not soo off-mark that I had to be sent off immediately. Definitely this was one of the worst interviews I've faced, mainly because their perception of you is that you are a bad candidate and the interview is focused on assuring themselves that you are indeed bad rather than trying to get the best of you assuming you are actually good. Another evident problem I could see was that they just don't care, why?, because the interviews are basically general, once you've finished your training you need to again find a team that is wiling to accept you, since the interviews are general and they know that you may or may not be a part of their team, they don't care losing you. The i-don't-care attitude was so evident when I saw the guy came in late + he yawned in between the interview.

The post probably makes you feel that I may be sore loser trying to vent my opinions here, I can assure you I am not, I've gotten over the interview and just wanted to give you guys a big heads-up for your interviews.

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Data Analyst at Bloomberg L.P.

No Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2013 – Reviewed May 11, 2013 New

Interview Details – Very basic questions. Why Bloomberg, why this position, etc.

Interview Question – Nothing unexpected   Answer Question

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Human Resources Staff at Bloomberg L.P.

No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY May 2009 – Reviewed May 6, 2013

Interview Details – Very long interview process met with 9 people

Interview Question – All were typical of Human Resources   Answer Question

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