I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Oct 2010
Interview
My first round was the phone interview. It lasted for 55 mins. Asked questions ranging from C/C++, Data Structures and Algorithms. Also asked me to write a function to find the height of a tree.
I guess, I did quite well on it. Got a call for an in-house interview the next day. I had a 2-on-1 technical interview. I thought the interview was tough. The questions were not common and required a solid background in C++ which I dont have. The two interviewers seemed pretty satisfied at the end. They asked me to wait for another interview. But then the HR came over and told me that we were done for the day. I dont know if that means a reject or that means that the second interviewer was not available? Waiting for a reply.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write the Vector class as it is implemented in STL
The interview consisted of two coding questions. The first was a LeetCode problem on counting ships in a rectangle, and the second was a find-path dynamic programming problem, also from LeetCode
Applied online got an email then telephone interview along with hacker rank test. First he asked about my CV briefly with emphasis on why you chose Bloomberg then he started coding questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Fibonacci with recursive function
Difference between recursive and iterative process
many detail questions about pointers
data structure
I applied through other source. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Mar 2016
Interview
The initial interview was an HR screener who sounded me out on what my skills were and what I had worked on. This was followed by two technical phone interviews using HackerRank to pose several questions for C++ in first, with 3 topics, then a bit of SQL coding in the second, with a lot of discussion of DELETE of nonunique rows in a table and SQL tuning
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
C++ class problems, SQL coding and tuning, C++ codin for efficiency, STL collections