I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Mar 2012
Interview
They ask you what language are you most comfortable with. I said C and they can screw you in C, no matter how long and how good you are at C because they have been coding in C ever since they were born. C++ or Java might be a better option. But they love C, if you can excel in C you would have good chances of advancing in the interviews.
They love lower level stuff
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
when a shell program calls some program and the program return say value 42, where is this value stored ? Give a detailed description of what happens then ?
Terrible communication. Got passed between 3 different recruiters all of whom gave specific dates for updates and blew past them. Descriptions of what would be covered in the interviews are wholly inaccurate (don’t bother reading the PDF they sent to “prep” you, almost none of it came up in any of the 3 interviews I did with them.)
Interviewers themselves were decent but clearly had exact “right” answers they were looking for. What’s the point of a leetcode question where there’s only one way to implement it? What’s the point of a system design interview where you’re having a candidate parse through a complex system that they clearly already know everything about and are just looking for 1-2 EXACT modifications to check off their boxes? Was there even a right answer? I genuinely don’t know what this company was looking for. Waste of time, waste of effort, waste of resources. Avoid, avoid, avoid
Interviewed with two separate teams. Coding rounds. Leet code style question. The interview went on for 1 hr. Waiting for the next steps. The seem to like link lists and arrays