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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.

Posted Nov 23, 2009

4.0
Difficult Interview
Overall Neutral Experience Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2009 in London, England (took a day)

I applied online for the position of Financial Software Developer. This was an Entry-Level Position. When completing your application form, you will have to chose which programming language you BEST know. This will affect your online test. I choose C++ as my best language and was invited to complete an online assessment test.

Some people said that their online assessment test consisted of figure orientation, logic, math problem questions. My online test was way more DIFFICULT than that, and consisted of C++ questions ONLY. Test included questions on virtual functions, friendship, template, catching exception, class access, constructors and destructors, memory heap. In my opinion you have to have a CS major with strong understanding of C++ fundamentals to get this test right.

I got a final score of 2.75/5.0 which is a 'Proficient level' according to Previsor/BrainBench, but got rejected.

Interview Questions

template<class T1; class T2; class T3>
int Product (T1 a, T2 b, T3 c)
{
      return a * b * c;
}

What is the error in the sample code above?
Why should malloc never be directly used to dynamically allocate instances of a class?

Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Skills Test.

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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P. student candidate

Posted Nov 22, 2009

Interviewed Apr 2007 (took 2+ weeks)

Campus interview consisted of basic C++ theoretical questions and based on resume.
Phone interview was done by 2 people. Design problem in C++ and detailed questions on resume projects… Post a review to see full interview

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Sales Representatve Tradebook at Bloomberg L.P.

Posted Nov 19, 2009

Interviewed Aug 2009 in New York, NY (took a day)

I experienced a general straightforward interview regarding questions about why I want to work for Bloomberg and what I can bring to the role. I needed to show that I had strong customer… Post a review to see full interview

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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P. student candidate

Posted Nov 18, 2009

Interviewed Oct 2009 (took 1 week)

Spoke with a former alum who came down to campus for an interview. First, he asked some basic questions about past work experiences and why I might be interested in working for Bloomberg… Post a review to see full interview

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Financial Software Developer Internship at Bloomberg L.P. student candidate

Posted Nov 12, 20091 of 1 people found this helpful

Interviewed Nov 2009 in New York, NY (took 2 days)

The first interview was at my school with two representatives in Technology at Bloomberg. They were easy-going and asked only technical questions related to programming, algorithms, and… Post a review to see full interview

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C++ Developer at Bloomberg L.P.

Posted Nov 12, 20091 of 1 people found this helpful

Interviewed Nov 2009 in New York, NY (took a day)

The quality of questions you get asked in an interview are good indicators of the quality of work you'll end up doing in that company. Of course there will be false positives but never… Post a review to see full interview

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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.

Posted Nov 17, 2009

Interviewed Nov 2009 (took 3+ weeks)

27 days after having submitted my resume online, I was asked to conduct an IQ test (they call it 'online technical assessment, but it is an IQ test, in point of fact). You generally have… Post a review to see full interview

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Quant Developer at Bloomberg L.P.

Posted Nov 16, 2009

Interviewed Nov 2009 (took 7+ weeks)

The phone interview lasted about 20 to 30 minutes.
2 men on the phone, but only 1 mainly asked.
Ask about pdes; how to write and solve differential equations
he also ask some basic… Post a review to see full interview

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Integration Specialist at Bloomberg L.P.

Posted Nov 10, 20091 of 1 people found this helpful

Interviewed Nov 2009 in London, England (took 1+ week)

Phone interview was a short 30 minute interview with the team leader - questions asked:
- Tell me about your recent experience and how this relates to the role
- Why Bloomberg and why… Post a review to see full interview

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Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.

Posted Nov 14, 2009

Interviewed Feb 2009 in New York, NY (took a day)

I got the opportunity through a staffing firm. The interview consists of 3 sections, each section takes approximately 1 hour:
1. Met with two senior engineers. Technical questions related… Post a review to see full interview

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