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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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Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Interviewed in Ann Arbor, MI Jan 2013 – Reviewed Mar 29, 2013
Interview Details – Applied for full time software engineering position at Bloomberg through an on-campus career fair. They did all of the rounds on campus. First round with two engineers, whiteboard coding and algorithmic problems. Then, at the end of that interview, found out immediately that I would do 2nd round (same style) with different engineers the next day. Different, easier algorithmic problems, and discussion of company culture, etc. Heard back a couple of weeks later.
Interview Question – A take on an iterative binary tree traversal problem. Struggled with time, as I was a bit rusty with the stuff. Answer Question
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Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY – Reviewed Mar 10, 2013
Interview Details – Applied online and got a telephone interview. Asked me technical questions directly. Because i am familiar with C++ so he asked something about C++. he was nice and spoke clearly.
Interview Question – A stock management system. questions like sorting, and storing (data structure) Answer Question
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Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Interviewed in Feb 2013 – Reviewed Feb 20, 2013
Interview Details – 3 rounds, on campus interview
Interview Question – Print out the k smallest element from a BST into a specified array, in the function form: firstKelement(treenode *root, int k, int *arr), without using any global variables. Answer Question
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Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Reviewed Feb 15, 2013
Interview Details – get an on-campus interview right after the career fair
Interview Question – implement strspn function, which is finding the first appearance of the second str in the first str View Answer
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Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Jan 2013 – Reviewed Feb 6, 2013
Interview Details – Got the opportunity through recruiter, followed by 2 1-hour technical phone interviews with 2 person team each time. On site interview was setup in NYC. They have a mass interview setup with tiny glass cubes where everyone can see you , it was weird looking at other interview candidates in next 3-4 cubes and hearing them too. They have free food and a cool atmosphere right in manhattan.
Interview Questions
- How do you find if a facebook friend is connected to another person given that there might be a lot of indirect friends? View Answer
- Multithreading question involving semaphores, mutex and condvars. Answer Question
- specific c++ (version 11) questions. they dont care if you know the previous version of c++ 10/10. learn shared_ptr, unique_ptr, scoped_ptr etc and other new features in c++ 11 in and out. View Answers (2)
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Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Jan 2013 – Reviewed Jan 19, 2013
Interview Details – Resume was submitted to Bloomberg One hour Phone Interview first with two engineers. Result was known same day after phone interview, then setup on site interview. On site interviews talking to two engineers. The phone interview questions are more about c++ plus some data structure and algorithm design; on site was all problem solving questions. Code writing with pencil and paper.
Interview Question – Given a binary tree of integer numbers, find the closest number to the given one. Answer Question
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Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Interviewed in Binghamton, NY Oct 2012 – Reviewed Nov 13, 2012
Interview Details – Bloomberg came to my school's job fair, where I handed in my resume. From there, they contacted me for an on-campus interview, then a second interview the next day, then a third and final interview the following week. The first two were technical, and the last was with two HR ladies and lasted only 10 or 15 minutes. After that, I didn't hear for a few weeks, which could be explained by Hurricane Sandy messing things up, I suppose. I ended up not receiving an offer, which befuddles me since I had three rounds of interviews.
Interview Question – We're playing a game of Russian Roulette. I take 2 consecutive bullets out of the 6 bullet revolver and spin the chamber. I go first and shoot the bullet at my head, which misses. I then pass the gun to you, where you have the option of spinning the chamber, or shooting. Which would you do to maximize your probability of not dieing? View Answers (4)
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Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Oct 2012 – Reviewed Oct 24, 2012
Interview Details – Had two interviews in our college campus. Got a reject after that so not sure of the after procedure.
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Given a binary tree (not a BST), print the nodes at a given level n passed as an input parameter. Here is how method definition looked like:
public void printLevel(root, level) View Answers (2) -
class A {
public A() {
foo();
}
public void foo() {
System.out.println("Class A");
}
}
class B extends A {
public B(){}
public void foo() {
System.out.println("Class B");
}
}
class main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
A a = new B();
}
}
What does it print? Class A or Class B? View Answers (8)
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Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Jun 2008 – Reviewed Jul 16, 2012
Interview Details – Very technical with questions on algorithms, design, data structures.
Interview Question – Why are manhole covers round. View Answer
Negotiation Details – No negotiation, take it or leave it.
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