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      Financial Software Developer Interview

      15 Mar 2011
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience

      Other Financial Software Developer interview reviews for Bloomberg

      Financial Software Engineer Interview

      3 Mar 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Indianapolis, IN
      No offer
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Jan 2011

      Interview

      Applied through college career site. Emailed me a few weeks later about taking an Intelligence Test, which was of average difficulty, some simple questions, some doozies like on a MENSA test, some annoying ones about finding the number of "h"s in a paragraph etc etc. Apparently I did well enough. Got a request for a phone interview a week or so later. The phone interview consisted first of talking about certain projects and work experience on my resume, then some programming related questions based on my couple of programming courses, and a couple of brain teaser/puzzles. Use techinterview(dot)com for an excellent resource for these types of questions. I wasn't quite able to answer one of the questions fully, but I talked through the entire thing and got frustratingly close. Very nice interviewer though, helped me out on questions I struggled with. Invited for an on-site interview, where they flew me in and put me up in a pretty nice hotel a few blocks away from the office. Very nice building, great atmosphere, glass doors in all the meeting rooms, cool stuff. First interview was with 2 software devs, who grilled me on a lot of C++ concepts (especially memory management and pointers), that I claimed to know from my self-study, but realized very quickly that I really didn't have a grasp on. it was very difficult for me, but should be a cakewalk for most people experienced in C++. I personally thought I did terribly on this portion of the interview. Be ready to write code on a notepad. One of the interviewers was really nice and helpful, the other seemed like he was having a bad day, and my inability to answer some of his questions quickly seemed to frustrate him even more. Next was a 1:1 with a manager in R&D, who asked me more brain teasers and a few more programming questions, which started off badly like the first interview, but got progressively better. Finally, there was a 1:1 with someone from HR, who asked a simple data structure concept question, but focused more on my resume, past experience, and other typical HR questions. He was really relaxed and put me at ease after a rigorous first couple of rounds of interviews. Advice: Brush up on whichever programming language you are most comfortable with. Don't lie about this! Like very basic theory and syntax, and those little nuances that you might be asked on an AP CS test or an intro CS test in college. Even if one of the on-site interviews goes badly, regroup between rounds and knock the next one out, and they will vouch for you (believe me...)

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      What are the differences between Java and C++?
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Given an array of integers, write an algorithm to find the largest sum of consecutive integers in the array.
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Describe how you would implement a HUGE phone book where a user would enter the first three letters of a name and the program retrieve all names with those first three letters as fast as possible.
      1 Answer
      2
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Indianapolis, IN) in Feb 2019

      Interview

      They had info session at school. I submitted my resume online and got the on-campus interview. The interview is 1 hour. Two engineers are the interviewer. Small talk at the beginning. Ask 1 or 2 questions about the resume. And then ask two technical questions. I finished the first one. But I did't have enough time to completed the second question. The first one is a string question. The second one is a tree question.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      A variation of Candy Crush.
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      A binary tree question. Connect left child and right child.
      1 Answer

      Financial Software Developer Interview

      31 Jan 2019
      Anonymous employee
      London, England
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Dec 2018

      Interview

      It was a very candidate-friendly interview process, had flexible on-site dates. Amazingly quick feedback. Overall a great experience. Technical phone screen with an engineer (2 simple/average coding questions) On-site (technical and behavioral rounds)

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Simple/average coding questions. Understanding recursion, stack, and heap, some basic C++ features, data structures characteristics
      Answer question

      Financial Software Developer Interview

      26 Nov 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Nov 2016

      Interview

      - There was one phone interview with a Bloomberg engineer. - The onsite interview started with a so called tour of Bloomberg but abruptly ended with a museum of their colorful terminals. It was over in 5 minutes. The group of interviewees laughed a little when it ended. - 2 rounds of technical interviews with a break of ~20 minutes. Found it easy. Mix of algorithm and design questions. All interviewers look satisfied when they left me. - HR and recruiter forget that I exist. Forget to contact me for the next 40 minutes or so. I go to their front desk to inquire whether there are more rounds. - HR appears slightly irritated but is polite. Next 30 minutes, HR tries to understand why after 6+ years of computer science education and working for a couple of years I "chose" to be a software engineer. Does not want to hear technical stuff. Had a hard time believing I could fit the role. I wondered whether I should have taken Psychology and then become a recruiter so I could judge potential candidates of a different discipline. - At the end of the interview, was asked to "patiently" wait for the next round. Within 5 minutes, one more guy turns up and says the conference room is booked. Was once again asked to goto the front desk. Bloomberg office is huge and not all elevators goto front desk. :-( Reach somehow. - Once again try telling the front desk people that I have an interview. Give the name of the host. Host appears after 15 minutes. Asks how the interviews are going. I say "not that great". Asks whether - "Do you want to stay?". I lower my head and say "yes". - In the conference room, realizes that the manager is out of office and the manager does not have my resume. Arranges a video conference. Asks the manager over conference to not keep him "busy" since he has a flight in flat 2.5 hours. - Manager tries to understand how I ended up interviewing at Bloomberg and what role she could give me if I was chosen. It was nice but nothing productive. Interview ends in 30 minutes. - Meet the so called organizer of the whole process. Asks whether the interview was awesome. I say it was "ok". Goes on a tirade on how people like me have a low attitude and should be happy to meet awesome people. After all, the process took only a day. - Keeps repeating "Hope you get it". "Hope you get it" with a smirk while I collect my luggage and thank her for all the arrangements. - Leave broken hearted and look tearfully at Lexington tower while I rush to the airport.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. Deep copy a linked list with a random pointer. 2. Perimeter of the wall enclosed by an enemy. Eg: 121 121 If the enemy is labeled 2 in the above matrix, the wall size is 6. 3. Design a circle class and then on, utilities on top of it including randomly generating a point within a circle. How do you translate to polar coordinates and what changes I would make. What changes would be required for a Square/Rectangle/eclipse etc.
      1 Answer
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