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

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Interviewed Jun 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)

Had a telephone interview with brain teasers, then a skills assessment interview with 3 different ppl at Bloomberg. The interview went pretty well, they showed me the office afterwards and pay for the hotel stay in midtown manhattan. Questions asked: wrote a pseudo code for sorting algorithm and the like.

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Brain teasers

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

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 (took 2 days)

I stopped by their booth at their booth in a career fair, and was asked a question on profit maximization, which I answered correctly. Then I was given an interview the next day. I was first asked to talk about some past experience I mentioned on my resume. Then I got a question in physics (since they know that I was a physics major). After that I got asked a few algorithm questions. The next day I had another interview with them, and was asked a brainteaser and two algorithm questions. Immediately following the interview, an HR person discussed with me about visa issues and salaries.

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There are 25 horses, and each runs at different constant speeds. If you want to find the 5 fastest horses, what is the minimum number of races needed, if each race can have five horses at most?

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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 Mar 2011 in New York, NY (took 5 days)

Everything is related to coding.
Big "O"
binary number , virtual machine,
Assembly Language.
AND OR Operations on numbers.

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What is Largest Integer

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AND operations between two binary numbers

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Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jun 2011 (took 2 weeks)

I was contacted to interview for a position with Bloomberg in a technical role. First spoke with a recruiter, than a manager and then a more senior manager. At each step, I was professional as were they. But after the final interview I sent off an email thanking them for their time and that I looked forward to hearing from them. Then not so much as the courtesy of a reply saying "We'll let you know" or "Thanks for all the effort" and no word on how the position was filled. When I interview, we always thank the candidate and let them know we went with another interviewee.

The overall interview process took an aggregate of 4-6 hours of my time and they couldn't take 5 minutes for a simple email. Maybe just an oversight but a pretty unprofessional one at that.

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How would you rate your knowledge of financial instruments?

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2010 (took a day)

The test was designed to check your basic knowledge on pointers, macro functions and string manipulation

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How is the macro function interpreted during compilation

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 in New York, NY (took 2+ weeks)

Very friendly interviewers - interview basically consisted of brainteasers. Work environment seemed quite good.

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Can't remember the details, but was asked a question regarding dropping eggs off high buildings to determine the height at which an egg would first break.

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Reason for Declining

Got more exciting job offer in a preferred location.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)

Applied online at commodities dept for the position of C++ developer. Within a few days I got a response from them and they scheduled a telephonic interview.
The interview was conducted by 2 people. One of them was a Dev and the other a senior manager.
There were very few logical or puzzle like questions. No problem solving questions. The interview was mostly concentrated on the in-depth knowledge of c++. They wanted someone who could work on supporting C++ applications running in production.
They started off with normal question about inheritance and then moved into STL. There was a few questions about how would you handle issues in production.

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What are iterators? What type are they as in how are they defined? What is the size of an iterator in memory?

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If you are given a dictionary of words how would you find anagrams from them? What data structures would you use and what would be the algorithm?

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If your program is hung in production environment how would you debug it without stopping it?

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What is virtual pointer table? Do different objects of a class have different virtual pointer tables?

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What are smart pointers? what is auto_ptr in STL?

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2010 (took a day)

questions asked :1.what runs before public static void main in Java.:ans:Static block.2.reverse a singly link list.3.height of a tree.

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object oriented features in c.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2010 in Pittsburgh, PA (took a day)

I was asked to write c++ code on a notepad.
              1) implement a binary tree
              2) code to clean some text and show them i can use object oriented concepts
              3) asked me questions about java and c++ and to explain differences
I got through the interview and to a second round before which I had to do an online test. You can choose which language (c++, java, c#) you want to do the test in. The test is not easy but its not hard either, its just that you get 3 minutes per questions and if you are not prepared for that it could take be a disadvantage, which was what happened to me.

Overall I am disappointed that I was not fully prepared before taking that test, because I got an email in a couple of hours saying and let me just translate, that i did not score above the cut off they have given to the system. Oh well, bye bye Bloomberg!!