I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg in May 2010
Interview
2 round of technical phone screen, 2 round of technical onsite, then 2 round talk to senior managers. The interview questions is not difficult. no lunch even I began the interview at 10:00AM and ended it at 3:00PM.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY)
Interview
I was initially contacted by a Bloomberg recruiter via LinkedIn. I was advised to apply for jobs online. I was then contacted to provide dates for phone screen interviews. For two of the positions, I was asked to give dates for in-house interviews. For one position, the interviewers were mostly very young and impatient. I think they had too many interviews going on that day and had a shortage of conference rooms. I was not always given a chance to refine my answers. For the second position I had a much better set of interviews that lasted most of the day (including lunch).
In the end I did not get hired.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I mentioned using a circular buffer as a technique of buffering messages and they asked me to implement one. I had not thought out how to deal with telling the difference between buffer full end buffer empty.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in May 2009
Interview
- Gave my resume to a recruiter. He called me back after couple of weeks saying I needed to take an only C/C++ proficiency test.
- Did the Skill test over the internet (C/C++)
- few days later, did phone interview over one hour
- few days later, full day on site interviews. About 6 or 8 interviews with higher and higher level managers. Around 8 hours.
- Last interview was with HR, who provided me with an offer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Writing code on papers. This is not as easy as it sounds if you are not used to it.
One unexpected question that I remember, was:
I do grep on a large file local file and it a long time. I do it again and now it takes much faster. Provide an explanation of this behavior.