Bloomberg L.P. Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – I took an online C++ test, which is very difficult, a lot of stuff on advanced C++ concepts.

Interview Details – The interview process consisted of several rounds: 1 online test, 1 phone interview, 2 interviews on-site. Most questions were difficult to say the least. The online test measured your C/C++ skills. The phone interview was OK. The onsite interviews were difficult, especially the final one with the head of R&D and HR.

Interview Details – 1) Met the Bloomberg reps at career fair, handed resume
2) Got a call a few hours later to schedule an on campus interview two weeks later
3) Went into the on campus interview expecting a standard 1 hour session. (Started at 3 PM, expected to end at 4)
4) Had 4 rounds of interviews, each about a 45 minutes long. First interview was with two software devs, second interview was with 1 software dev, third interview was with a HR, and fourth interview was with a senior programming manager.

Each interview focused heavily on data structures and OOP.

I ended up leaving at around 7 PM, so the interview was four hours long. I think they generally try to keep you for longer if they like you, or they kick you out after the first interview.

Interview Question:
In the first two interviews, the questions were heavily focused on data structures and string manipulations. There was also a lot of pointer/reference trick questions.
The third interview was a HR interview, so very standard HR questions. I.E. Why Bloomberg? What don't you like a Bloomberg?

The fourth interview was the hardest. When I had went in, he said that only one person had made it so far before me. (I came at 3 PM, so atleast 8 people have come and only one made it) The interview questions were very difficult. The interviewer gave me examples of codes and told me to find the most subtle errors and then to optimize the code. It had to do with OOP. The final question he asked me was how I would solve a specific problem in the company. (Not allowed to say)

Overall, I had a good time! Hope to interview with them again in the future.

Interview Details – There are 5 stages of interview. First one was telephonic interview. It was purely technical - c++, databases, unix. Next stage was face to face interview. Second interview was f2f and purely technical which lasted 2 hrs. At the beginning of this interview, I was told that whether I have more interviews or not will depend on how I fair in this interview. Second f2f was with the manager of team which lasted 45 minutes. It was totally CV based. Third f2f was with HR, it also lasted one hour and consisted of typical HR type questions and CV based questions, it was almost repetition of second f2f. Last stage was telephonic interview with NY team. I have really bad experience with this interview. The interview was arranged for 10 PM on a Friday night and the interviewer did not call. It was rearranged for Monday night. Even then, he did not apologise for not calling on Friday. Also, the way he started the interview it seemed he had really made up his mind not to take it. Asked me a very vague scenario based question and when I asked questions he replied u have to decide that for everything and finished the interview abruptly.

Interview Details – I had a very negative experience with these recruiters. They called me to the side as I was walking by at a campus job fair, and started asking me technical questions before even asking for my name or resume. After a few, they put me down for an interview. The recruiters then showed up 30 minutes late to the interview, and the actual questions themselves were a nightmare. They asked me stuff that just wasn't feasible to write as code for an interview question, and I somehow made it through the first round and had to come back the next day. They were late once again, and the process repeated. They seemed to get extremely frustrated when I couldn't write the implementation to an entire threadpool in C on the spot. That's not even an exaggeration, it was the first question they asked me.

Interview Details – A job was posted online on a Friday evening. On Monday morning at 7am, i submitted my resume via the company website. I possess advanced skills in 100% of the required qualifications.

At 8am, I received an auto reply from HR thanking me for my application. At 9am, I received an 'donotreply' email from HR stating that I would not be being considered as an applicant.
It's incredulous to me that my qualifications could possible have been properly reviewed. This job is either not really available or HR needs to step up it's act...either way, it reflects extremely poor business practices.

Interview Details – 2 interviews that were an hour each, done on campus. Interviewers were a bit unfriendly.

Interview Details – Started with an online C/C++ (BrainBench) test which I had no problem with, despite it was quite difficult. I was notified I'd made it through to the next round(telephone interview). In the interview I was asked about very specific C++ questions, and Unix platform during about 1 hour. A few days later I received and email which said they wasn't going to make an offer.

Interview Details – I was initially contacted by some staffing firm Bloomberg uses to source in candidates. This particular time, I managed to get a phone screen by the STAFFING FIRM.

They basically hit me with all sorts of esoteric questions about C/C++. Stuff no one really cares about in day-to-day work programming activities.

So I work on their initial quiz (which took a day). Then the phone screener hits me with another programming question about reversing a C-string. So I wrote my standard answer, which is pretty efficient anyway. then this guy asks me how to reverse the string in one pass, and gives me 24 hrs to think about it.

So after 24 hrs, they call me back. I told them what is the end-goal to this, and what comes next if I succeed? They said more tricky questions by THEM. If I pass that, THEN I get to talk to Bloomberg. I told them their question wasn't worth the trouble, and I'll pass on them. They gave me some kinda lip about college students being able to solve their pet question in short order. So I got some good ole New Jersey/New York attitude for my efforts!

Basically, I now ignore these bozos whenever they come knocking..you should too!