I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jan 2010
Interview
My recruiter informed me that I will be called for an interview within the next couple of days or so. HR called me and set up the interview. I went there and interviewed with 3 people. The first 2 people conducted technical interviews where I was offered a pencil and a paper to solve a programming exercise nothing complicated. It dealt with C pointers. Then the other person asked general questions about C++ and object oriented programming concepts. The third person who interviewed me was from HR and she asked few behavioral questions and mostly talked about the great benefits the company offers. I did not like the atmosphere there it seemed like a "big brother" environment with cameras and surveillance all over the place. Additionally, it seemed like most of the technology used in the company in-house and using C or C ++ and one of them mentioned Fortran which gave me the feeling that in terms of technology I won't be learning much but on the other hand I might learn about the financial markets. The interviewers were one was nice and the other was neutral. a week later I was offered a position but by then I already accepted another offer.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jan 2010
Interview
Applied at university but was rejected at first :) Had also applied online, so luckily got a call from there after 2 months. Gave skills assessment test in C as I am from CS background. Next day I got an email for phone interview round. The phone interview was mostly C++ questions, a couple of algorithm questions and some networking questions. Now I have on-site interview in a few days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How will you find out what has happened in the network if - initially the network speed is 10Mbps but suddenly it drops down to 10Kbps.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Jan 2010
Interview
Submitted my resume online. Got an email back within 2 days asking me to take an online technical assessment. I'm not a computer science major, so the interview were simple logic questions, dimensional thinking, and math. Had 30 questions, 3min per question. Have a 45-minute phone interview coming up.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Rotate the shape. What will be the final position?