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Updated Feb 9, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Interview Experience [?] Based on 56 ratings

Positive	27%
Neutral	45%
Negative	29%

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5.0

Very Difficult Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 (took 2 days)

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.

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Write a threadpool in C.

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Complex combinatorial questions.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2010 (took a day)

I had an interview with Bloomberg in 2010 when I was applying for a full time role. There was an initial phone screen containing HR related questions. However after that there was a technical phone interview which lasted for about an hour. It consisted of questions on:

PERL regular expressions,
Java OOPS concepts
Virtual functions
MVC Frameworks and more

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What is the difference between an interface and an abstract class?

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

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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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jul 2010 (took 3 weeks)

Company was extremely nice. I noticed that for engineers, the enviroment was very casual. Interview was for a software engineer position.

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How would you optimize this line of code?

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

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

It was a very awkward phone interview. I was interviewed by two men at once. They asked very technical questions about the difference in the way you code things. They also asked a lot of behavioral questions.

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What exactly do you know about the software development teak at Bloomberg?

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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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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2011 (took a day)

I was interviewing in their boot camp in a conference.

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Write a code to write the last level nodes of a binary tree.

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)

I took two-rounds campus interview with Bloomberg in October. Each interview has two interviewers. We talked about my resume first, and something about my previous projects. Then they comes to basic questions about language, then data structure design and last related algorithm design and analysis based on the data structure. Mostly they are about graphs data structure.

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Algorithms related to weighted graph.

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)

First they asked some questions about your resume, then some questions about your background. They will check your programming ability, and ask some questions about your programming experience.The technical questions are quite straight forward. The algorithm is really easy, but I failed on the concept of C++ programming, They asked me some concept that I have never heard of...

Interview Questions

given two array, find out the same elements without sorting them

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 in Washington, DC (took 1+ week)

The interviewer for the phone interview was awful. He asked vague questions like "If you run into a problem in the constructor, how would you solve that?" If you ask clarifying questions, he thinks you're stupid for not understanding such a simple question. I will likely never apply to Bloomberg again.