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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Reviewed Apr 22, 2013
Interview Details – Phone Interview
Interview Question – Questions about resume then 1 Prog Question on Data structures View Answer
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Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 18, 2013
Interview Details – Started off by applying to their internship online. Within a day or two, I got an email asking to schedule a phone interview, and I had the phone interview the next week. Phone interview lasted about an hour, interviewer said it went over time a little. Mostly questions regarding simple algorithms to handle information. Know basic data structures such as hash tables, linked lists, etc. After about another week, I was asked to go to NYC for an on-site interview, so I scheduled it through Bloomberg's HR. The process was pretty easy, they pay for the flight and hotel. At the on-site interview, I had 3+1 interviews. First, an interview with 2 engineers for ~1 hour, then a similar interview with another 2 engineers for ~1 hour, then another ~1 hour interview with the manager of the group. These were all completely technical, asked questions of object oriented design, implementing some simple functions, data structures. Then about a week later, I got a call from the recruiting department saying I got the internship.
Interview Question – Given a large dataset of people, distinct phone numbers, non-unique names. How would you store the data so that you could efficiently look up someone's data by phone number? By name? What about partial searches, i.e. a few letters of the name? Answer Question
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Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 14, 2013
Interview Details – Not sure if I got a call due to submission of resume online, or career fair. Both things happened more than a month ago. So I got an email for setting up of a telephonic interview, where I told my availability for next week. Next week I got another email asking for availability again for week after that, and a date/time was finalized.
Interview Questions
- If you have all the companies that are traded, and live inputs are coming of which company is being traded and what is the volume, how do you maintain the data, so that you can carry out operation of giving the top 10 most traded companies by volume of shares most efficiently. View Answer
- If I give you a new book, and ask you to create the index which is found at the end of the book, how will you do it. View Answer
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Production Specialist at Bloomberg L.P.
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 11, 2013
Interview Details – It was easy, called asked if hours were good. worked through a head hunter agency to get the position.
Negotiation Details – 2 weeks background check took a while
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 11, 2013
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Posted my resume and cover letter through their website. Got an phone interview three weeks later.
The phone interview lasted about 50 minutes. Questions include some details about underlying in JVM and C++.
Did not expect them to ask questions on Java, because they seem not working with Java.
And he asked me some other very very easy questions on array. HOWEVER, I could not understand his accent. Even though I repeated his question twice to him, he said yes, I still misunderstood what he meant.
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1) Differences between C and Java
2) Details about JVM
3) What are compiler, linker and loader.
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Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Reviewed Apr 9, 2013
Interview Details – On campus interview. 4 rounds. About an hour each. First 3 were technical, last one was an HR interview.
Interview Question – 2 lists, find the common elements amongst the list. Do it w/ and w/o external storage, as fast as possible. View Answer
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Declined Offer – Reviewed Apr 6, 2013
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Basic algorithm questions, linked list, find prime numbers, number of zeros in the end of n!. Need to code with paper and pencil. Not very hard comparing to other IT companies.
Object oriented design problem. Not hard, just apply the ood principle and proper design patterns.
Many behavior question such as why bloomberg, what is 5yrs goal, 10yrs goal, how to be a leader.
Interview Question – Josephus problem. Not easy to get the trick if see it for the first time. Answer Question
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Senior Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Reviewed Apr 4, 2013
Interview Details – Applied online. After ~3 weeks received request for phone screen. Phone screen lasted ~1hr and was all trivia on C language, with questions on keywords, and analyzing a few lines of code. Interviewer did not show any emotion or give any indications of whether or not they were satisfied with a given answer. Asked some Unix questions and trivia on threads, parallel processing. Ended with some open ended questions on data structures, like 'are you familiar with any data structures?' I mentioned linear structures (array, LL, etc), hash tables, and trees to give a couple examples. Asked questions like 'what is notable about XX data structure,' 'what is important when hashing keys', 'how are trees balanced.' I had a lot of questions and the interviewer said 'I can give you about 2 minutes.' He sounded like a robot, so I asked if he enjoyed the job and he said it's fast paced and you will roll out features often.
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Is this valid/what would this do (C):
int *p;
p=0;
p++;
printf("%d",p); Answer Question -
char *a = "hello";
char b[] = "hello";
char *c = malloc(12);
What do these do, what's the difference in where the memory is stored? View Answer - What's the 'static' keyword in C used for? UNIX: what's a file descriptor, what command do you use to see system operations? What's a thread/deadlock/race condition/etc? Answer Question
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Financial Product Sales & Analytics Training Program at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Reviewed Apr 4, 2013
Interview Details – Applied through university career website. HR emailed me to schedule a 15 minute phone interview. Was mostly fit questions and behavior.
Interview Question – Where do you see yourself in 5 years Answer Question
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Financial Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Los Angeles, CA Jan 2013 – Reviewed Mar 31, 2013
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I submitted my resume on campus and got a call next day. I had an HR round on phone in which they tested my personality and then flew me off to New York.
In new york they took a 1:1 technical interview.Questions started from easy to difficult.
After that there was a round with the Hiring manager who offere me the salary package which i accepted.
Interview Question – Explain the Hidden Markov Model? View Answer
Negotiation Details – There was simple salary offer which i accepted.
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