I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Nov 2011
Interview
I submitted application online on both my university`s career website and Bloomberg career site. One week later I received a notification of completing an online assessment test. After finished the test, I was asked to schedule an phone interview. Two weeks later in the phone interview, I was first asked about why Bloomberg? Why do you discontinue current interest and choose financial industry? Then asked some technical questions about c++, linked list, hash table and BST. After that, three brain teaser questions. Overall, the interview is not difficult, but I think I screwed up because I did badly in behavior questions
There are 10 boxes of apples. Each apple in the boxes weights 1 pound, except that one of the boxes contains bad apples, which weights 0.9 pound each. You are given a digital weight (not a scale), and you can take apples out of the boxes. what is the minimum time of weighs to find out which box has bad apples?
I gave one solution of 3 times using divide and conquer, but the interviewer said that 1 step is possible. So I couldn`t come up with the solution.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londres, Inglaterra) in Oct 2011
Interview
Got an interview in their London house with 2 tech guys, was asked basic C++ (pointers, OO, data structures etc ) questions and a logic test. It was a very nice and relaxed hour.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic concepts of pointers, stack, heap, data structures and OO techniques
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Sep 2011
Interview
Time limited iq test. Given a pattern what would be the next figure, Count the number of "h"s in a sentence, simple algorithm. Logic questions that you can find on the net and in some books. Took about 30 min.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given a pattern fill a gap or continue with the appropriate figure