I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg in May 2010
Interview
There is an online test first. You will make choice about which language to use. Actually you'd better use C++, since the company really don't want someone who is not good at C/C++.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given that plenty of memory is available, how would you design a program that would hold information of about 3000 employees in a company?
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londres, Inglaterra) in Jun 2010
Interview
After completed an online assessment test I was invited for the phone interview. All questions was technical. Interviewer began with simple C++ questions like: what does copy constructor do, what is polymorphism, what is overloading, etc and finished with a more advanced about interprocess communication and STL. The chat over the phone took about 30 minutes and was very friendly.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Apr 2009
Interview
Sent online test to the applicant. If you are not the computer science background, they normally do not test your programming skills online, but tested the IQ and logic analysis capability. Then aggregated a group of candidates in same day, like a open house day, introduced company at NYC site and then interview each person face to face and 1:1.