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Updated Feb 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took a day)

A group of 2 interviewed me. The interview was good. A few programming questions regarding data structures. A few logical questions.

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How to delete from a doubly linked list?

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How do you ind out if two lists are merging somewhere?

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How do you find out if the last node of the list points to some node in the middle?

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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took 1+ week)

Applied online, got back to me the next day to set up a phone interview. Phone interview about 2 weeks after initial contact. Basic questions about resume, why you want to be in sales and why finance. Biggest issue in the economy. What does Bloomberg do. What does the terminal do?

Paying for me to fly out to NYC and putting me up in a hotel. I assume that there will be a ton of people at the interview. Currently in commercial banking trying to get into the financial services industry seems like a good way to break in, and network.

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What professional accomplishment were you most proud of.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2011 (took a day)

Was asked questions on data structures basically. Trees, linked lists, circular linked lists. How to identify repeat elements in a circular linked list. How to identify if the linked list was circular.

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How do u identify if a linked list is a circular linked list or not?

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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2011 in New York, NY (took 3 days)

Three phone interviews. First 2 phone interviews were not difficult. Some technical questions on what I had done. No brain treasures. 3rd phone interview was some what difficult as I was not quite ready for such type of questions. He was not interested in what I had done. Straight to questions. Looked like the interviewer had prepared well.

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how do you generate two noise processes/series with a correlation of 0.6.

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what is the mean value for the simulation x(t) = 0.5 x(t-1) + 0.5*zita(t).
what happens if 0.5 is replaced with 2.

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How would you detect the rank deficiency of a matrix and how would it be affected if I multiply the matrix by 0.000001?

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what will be summation of the eigen values of a correlation matrix?

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed May 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 days)

Had two interviews. Quite straightforward. Mostly behavioral questions.

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What can you tell me about Bloomberg's Global Data division?

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2011 (took a day)

2 managers or team leaders asked few questions about CV in detail.
They were very interested in how much you know about Bloomberg.

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What are the factors that determines option price ?

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2011 in New York, NY (took 4+ weeks)

applied online thru my school's career site, passed resume screening and iq test. two weeks later received a phone interview. 2 more weeks later they flew me to NYC for an on site interview. didnt do too well, and two weeks later got the rejection email.

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write an array

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Background Check.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Dec 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)

I got the phone interview after applying online about 2 weeks, the question is about some algorithms, there are two important questions, the first one is that there is an array which includes 99 numbers, and the numbers from 1 to 100, no same number, how could you find the missing one. The second question is that there are 8 buttons, 7 of them are some, one is a bit little heavier, and you have a balance, how could find the heavier one, you can just use the balance twice.

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the first one is that there is an array which includes 99 numbers, and the numbers from 1 to 100, no same number, how could you find the missing one.

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The second question is that there are 8 buttons, 7 of them are some, one is a bit little heavier, and you have a balance, how could find the heavier one, you can just use the balance twice.

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Interviewed Nov 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)

I was given a written test online, which consisted of 2 parts. One tested your understanding of linux commands, mostly bash piping outputs etc. The 2nd part tested your knowledge of SQL, my recruiter knew I was unfamiliar with SQL but sent me to the interview anyway. I left the 2nd part blank. Was called in the afternoon about 3pm from a Bloomberg techie for an interview. I was asked some technical linux questions first, then when she asked me about my SQL knowledge I didn't have any background in that. We talked a little bit about the position and said they will contact me. I knew it was the lack of SQL that did not meet their requirements. I did not get an offer.

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You have an SQL database how do you find specific entries with a specific last name?

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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took a day)

We had a phone interview 2 weeks ago, they asked me some basic questions on C++: ctor, dtor, static, how to call c code; algorithem:big o notation, hashtable, bubble sort, DB: transaction; multithread: deadlock, race condition, mutex. And now I was still waiting for the result.

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Write a function that performs a string reverse: Develop a two-pass, pointers only solution using a char* of the following form - void strReverse( char *s)

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