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      Senior Software Developer Interview

      15 Feb 2014
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Feb 2014

      Interview

      Found posting on LinkedIn group. Contacted recruiter. Had a good 20-30 min. conversation with recruiter, who then scheduled a technical phone interview the next week. The position was for a C/C++ developer so (surprise surprise) C++ questions. Typical technical questions about C++. Nothing to easy, but nothing crazy obscure either. That went ok. Had a second technical phone interview. Similar questions. One design question. But as long as you understand data structures - and how and what to use them for, it shouldn't be too difficult. Got invited for an onsite interview(s) in NYC. These are done in stages, with little to no break. First interview @10am, was technical with 2-3 developers. Similar to the phone technical interviews. But this time you need to write code. Unfortunately, you have to write code on paper (tiny sheets of paper), with dull pencils. I should have brought my own. Not sure why they don't have whiteboards there. At the end of each interview, the team decides whether to have you continue interviewing. I got a second interview. Again a team of 2-3 developers, asking technical questions, nothing to crazy though. But for this second interview, I felt the team lead (I assume he was the lead, or at least a more senior developer) was trying to pressure me to write the code faster. Kept saying we're almost out of time, even though we weren't really). But it is a good technique. Seriously. As an experienced s/w developer, there are times when you will be in a high pressure situation, and it is important to see how people respond. This is where my onsite interview day ended. As I understand it, the normal plan is to have 2, technical interviews, then a manager interview, then an HR person comes in to wrap things up. You may get an offer right then and there, or you may get it within 24 hours, if they can't quite make up their minds then and there. But ... they will let you know either immediately, or within 24 hours at latest. Which is great, really. I knew that after the 2nd tech. team left, and the HR person came into the room that I was done for the day. I wasn't upset by it though. I enjoyed the experience. My suspicion is that I wasn't maybe as sharp, technically, in my responses. I didn't prep to much just before the interview. Mostly because I wasn't too sure if I really wanted to live and work in NYC, but also because I wasn't totally sure if this would be a good fit. My advice is to prep writing code before hand. There are lots of interview questions you can find, here and elsewhere. Practice them. And on the day of the interviews, practice them about an hour or two before the interview, just to get your brain warmed up for coding of the top of your head, on paper. If you get an onsite interview, eat a big breakfast before. They will keep you there until they are done with you. Of course you can get bathroom breaks. But you'll be there all morning, and possibly afternoon. But honestly, I find the time flies by. My interviews started at 10am. I had 2, but the second didn't end until 12:30, and I left by 1pm. There was a long wait between the end of the 2nd interview and the HR person telling we were done. Which is why I think I did OK, but just not 100% there for them, I guess.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Nothing to difficult, I guess. Design a system that keeps track of tickers (name and price) per exchange that: gives the top 20 most recently updated tickers - or something like that.
      1 Answer
      7

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