I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jan 2016
Interview
That interview process was not going well. Firstly, I forgot to take my lunchbox with me and my interviewers and I had to go back to the place with we met to pick up lunchbox. Secondly, my interviewing cubicle was occupied by oneself. And we had to go to a conference room 3 floor below. And it turned out that room was occupied as well but they moved to another place.
I feel like my interviewers was not in the mood for this interview anymore.
Anyway,
The interview started off very strangely. The interviewer was wondering why I was using Python but I had applied for a Python developer role. I was never asked any questions about me they dove straight into the coding questions. The first questions was relatively straight forward. The second question required some thinking but they did not seem to want to give me room to think about the problem and it became difficult to solve the problem even with the hints as both interviewers were giving their inputs sometimes at the same time. Rejected the next day. If you interview with this company make sure you have the solution ready within the first 5 seconds of being asked.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londres, Inglaterra) in Feb 2016
Interview
I applied online, from the company's website. After applying, I got an e-mail about a phone interview, which was supposed to take about an hour. My task was to write a bunch of algorithms online, when one of the developers there watching me at the same time, after they ask the questions. However, since the beginning, even though I clearly stated I was applying for Microsoft development, they decided to process me in C++ development, which I didn't want. After 10 minutes the phone interview started, I had to stop the interview as they were simply wasting my time for a position I never wanted and applied. The next day, they decided to send an e-mail which stated I have been unsuccessful, which sounded quite funny actually. So unprofessional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I don't recall the questions exactly, but one of them was about binary sorting, the other one was "how would you check if a string is actually a numeric value, without using internal functions that libraries provide, like Int32.TryParse(...) etc.