I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Oct 2010
Interview
The interview lasts about 50 minutes. I was asked some questions about c++ since I said to interviewer that i am more comfortable with c++. The questions were like, what is function overloading, how does compiler achieve overloading and virtual function. And, I was asked a question: given an array, all the elements in the array appear twince, only one element appears only once. Find that element. Eg, the array is 2 4 2 3 4 1 3 6 6, 1 should be the answer. I said this can be solved using map, I guess there should be some more efficient ways. Finally I was asked to implement a function about pointers and memory management. The idea is you should use char ** str as the argument since the pointer in argument will be pass-by-value.
I didn't do well in the interview. I guess that is it. Anyway, a good experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
given an array, all the elements in the array appear twince, only one element appears only once. Find that element. Eg, the array is 2 4 2 3 4 1 3 6 6, 1 should be the answer.
Overall, it was a positive and professional interview experience, though the interviewer was on the stricter side. Unfortunately, I was dealing with an illness and wasn't able to prepare as thoroughly as I wanted to, which left me feeling a bit off throughout the conversation. Despite not feeling my best and facing a tough interviewer, the process was well-structured.
Fairly simple. Phone call then onsite. For onsite it was 10 min office tour follow by 1 hr interview then 1 hours system design and 30 mins manager interview. Interviewers were nice and the recruiter was accommodating.
5 rounds first 3 being leetcode coding ones and the last 2 being behavioral. The first three are the hardest asking mainly taggeed questions and the rest are not that bad