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

It took 45 minutes. First, discuss my background, experience, my interest and why I choose Bloomberg. Then, 3 IQ/Intelligence questions.

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why you choose Bloomberg?

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The interview consisted of an IQ/Intelligence Test.

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

Was a nice experience, depending upon your language preference one will be asked 30 MCQ's each to be solved in 90 seconds, for me it was C so the question were mainly based on pointers and structures and were mainly like : Find the output or put in the missing instruction.

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Some question of insertion in a sorted linked list

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The interview consisted of a Skills Test.

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Interviewed Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took 2 days)

First had to go through an online IQ-type test, then about a week later was scheduled for a phone interview. The phone interview mostly consisted of technical questions and skill-based knowledge, with a little bit of work history. After successfully getting through the phone interview, I was invited for an on-site interview in New York. Bloomberg took care of all the travel arrangements, including flight, hotel, and a car from the airport. The building was very nice and easy to find. I was given security clearance to go upstairs where I met the HR person who was my contact for the day who brought me to my two technical interviewers. They asked a lot of programming and algorithm questions, and one design questions. Some of the questions were kind of tough, as they were some things that I learned years ago and hadn't needed or touched since. I would recommend that you really brush up on your fundamentals before the interview. I got an e-mail the next day saying that I didn't get the position, so I'm happy that they got back to me so quickly.

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Design an online library system.

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Write a function that returns the element x positions from the end of a linked list.

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of an IQ/Intelligence Test, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.

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

there are two rounds, and the first one is 1 to 1 interview, and HR just asked some basic programming questions, like how to reverse a string, and also asked some about my projects. For the next round, two HRs asked me about the programming knowledge again, and also tested me about how to reverse an integer. The interesting thing is that there was a logic puzzle for me. I was kinda stessed out at that time so that I was kind stuck on this problem. I was notified not to get that intern a few days later by E-mail.

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How to reverse a string

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How to find out the most frequently appeared number in an integer array?

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.

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

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.

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Submit your application online through our company website.

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I Applied Online.

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

Asked basic questions about resume, knowledge about company, job function

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Tell me about yourself

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What do you know about Bloomberg (what we do, what you will be doing)

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

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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Skillman, NJ (took a day)

Was offered an interview in person after applying online. Interviewed with 2 out of 4 people for 20 minutes per interviewor. Was never given a response.

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Why are you applying for this position?

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.

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Interviewed Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took 3 weeks)

First was an online IQ type test followed by a phone interview. The "IQ test" consisted of word problems, image manipulation questions, word searches and other questions. Have a pen and paper ready because you will probably want it.

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Identify how many times a single word appears in a word search.

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.

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Interviewed Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took 2 months)

First, On-line test. Problems are like count the number of letters in a sentence.etc.
Then I got a phone interview. probability question, math problems and coding problems.
1. Find the biggest number in an array without sorting.
2. given 99 numbers from 1 to 100 no-duplicate, find the number that is not there between 1 to 100; given 98 numbers from 1 to 100 no-duplicate, find the two numbers missing between 1 to 100.

Then I got an onsite interview.
Since I am not CS major, they just ask you given a array, how to find the two biggest number.
How to randomize a deck of cards. write a program.

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Find the biggest number in an array without sorting.

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Given 99 numbers from 1 to 100 no-duplicate, find the number that is not there between 1 to 100; given 98 numbers from 1 to 100 no-duplicate, find the two numbers missing between 1 to 100.

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Given a array, how to find the two biggest number,write psydo code

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How to randomize a deck of cards.

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