I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Aug 2010
Interview
The interview lasted 45 minutes instead of 1 hour as the interviewer was unable to reach me.
Interviewer rushed through questions asking non technical then technical questions.
some unix questions asked
how do you know how many cpu's your machine is running and how do you differentiate between virtual Vs physical cores?
how do you find out how much VM is in use?
is there another way to find out how much disk space is used besides du?
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How do you find out how many cpu's your linux machine is using and are they physical or virtual?
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Feb 2009
Interview
We went through all kinds of data structures, i.e., linkedlist, array, binary tree, binary search tree, hash tables... In particular, he asked me whether there is a place that binary search tree could beat hash tables. And then I was asked a lot of detailed questions on various aspects of C/C++. In the end, I was thrown a prime number algorithm question, which I didn't figure out.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londres, Inglaterra) in Feb 2010
Interview
After screen test was invited for an interview. Really impressive building, very fancy environment, 1 tour of questions was easy, it's the 2 where i screwed up. They asked me some questions related to TCP Ip protocol, I can't even remember what exact quetions were but I coudn't answer. I didn't expect much from that interview. In a week of time I got a phone call from them that I am not a person they were lookign for...