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Financial Software Developer Interview

Feb 17, 2015

Anonymous Interview Candidate

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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Feb 2014

Interview

Met the recruiters at the career fair. The initial screen was pretty easy. The next day met with a panel of interviewers which lasted an hour. Was pretty nervous and stumbled even for easier ones. Did not expect behavioral from technical panel who thought I was nervous and tried to ease the pressure.

Interview questions [4]

Question 1

Given a stream of integers, how do you find the median of the numbers? Follow Up: Consider the functionality for a corp., to find the median of company, what is the most time effective way of doing it? Now, if having similar functionalities such as average, min, max, variance, etc. what data structures would you use?

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Question 2

Generate a random stream of integers without using rand(). Follow Up: What modifications should be done to the program if to generate random stream of integers within limits (max, min) inclusive?

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Question 3

Given a string, find the longest contiguous sequence of strings without using additional memory; one or two variables are fine. Pick any one if a tie. e.g. sbcsdfaaiwer; ans: aa

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Question 4

Behavioral: What if your manager goes against your decision? Who will you consult and what is the best thing to do if you think that you are right in this case?

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Financial Software Developer Interview

Feb 16, 2015

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

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Easy interview

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I interviewed at Bloomberg

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Applied online. Got a technical coding question on phone interview and a question on general data structures. After two days, heard back from them asking me to fly to NY for an in-house interview.

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Question 1

Find repeating characters in string. Count occurrences of number in a stream of numbers. Print elements of a linked list in a particular order. Eg: 2-4-5-6-7-10-13 . output - "2,4-7,10,13". If the numbers are consecutive print the starting and ending number of the range, otherwise print the numbers as such in the form of string

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Financial Software Developer Interview

Feb 15, 2015

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Declined offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2014

Interview

Applied online on Bloomberg's website. Got back from an HR in 3 weeks. After that, there were 2 technical phone interviews and 1 on-site interview including technical interviews and behavioral interview. All those people from Bloomberg are patient and super nice. Visited Bloomberg headquarter during on-site interview, great experience! Top 1 choice if you want to work in a financial-related IT company in NYC!

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Question 1

Design an cache

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Financial Software Developer Interview

Feb 17, 2015

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Feb 2014

Interview

Interview questions [4]

Question 1

1 Answer

Question 2

Generate a random stream of integers without using rand(). Follow Up: What modifications should be done to the program if to generate random stream of integers within limits (max, min) inclusive?

Answer question

Question 3

Given a string, find the longest contiguous sequence of strings without using additional memory; one or two variables are fine. Pick any one if a tie. e.g. sbcsdfaaiwer; ans: aa

Answer question

Question 4

Behavioral: What if your manager goes against your decision? Who will you consult and what is the best thing to do if you think that you are right in this case?

Answer question

Financial Software Developer Interview

Feb 16, 2015

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Easy interview

Application

I interviewed at Bloomberg

Interview

Applied online. Got a technical coding question on phone interview and a question on general data structures. After two days, heard back from them asking me to fly to NY for an in-house interview.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

2 Answers

Financial Software Developer Interview

Feb 15, 2015

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Declined offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2014

Interview

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Design an cache

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