I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jan 2014
Interview
Saw the posting on my college career services website, applied on Bloomberg's website. Was contacted about a month later and got a 45 minute phone interview. It was 2 technical questions about data structures, and then they asked if I had any questions about Bloomberg. First question was the difference between arrays and linked lists.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Second question was about using a hash table to store info about web history. Bloomberg seems to ask a lot about hash tables, probably due to their efficiency.
The first round is a phone interview that takes 45 min. After several days I got the email saying that I wad invited to the on site interview in New York. There were two interviewers this time.
I applied online, and few days after, the HR email me to schedule a phone interview date with the interviewer, the first scheduled time nothing happen, so I scheduled another time, then the next time, the phone call came as expected, they only ask me some very simple questions such as what's the difference between java and C++, most of time I talking about my project which the interviewer seems interested in on it too.
All seem going smoothly, however, two weeks later, I was told that the position was already filled.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How the difference of C++ and java reflects on my project.