I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Mar 2013
Interview
Met them in campus career fair at first. The recruiters went directly into technical questions when you hand over your resume. Passed this resume screening and was arranged on-campus technical interview. Got two rounds in a row. All typical bloomberg style questions. There should be another round on campus but the manager was delayed by storms in NYC. Flied to NYC instead. Final round was also a 1:1 interview with a R&D manager. NO technical questions! Some kind of brain teasers or problem solving skills test. It was fully unexpected to me. I mistook it as a technical one and faced some language barriers since I was quite nervous then. In short I screwed it up. Received the reject email after a week. One more to mention, the accommodation is quite generous, they got a nice building and all the interviewers are so nice even when I made some silly mistakes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
horse race problem. how many races you need to hold given specific number of tracks and horses. no stop watch - the only way is to compare their relative speed.
The first round is a phone interview that takes 45 min. After several days I got the email saying that I wad invited to the on site interview in New York. There were two interviewers this time.
I applied online, and few days after, the HR email me to schedule a phone interview date with the interviewer, the first scheduled time nothing happen, so I scheduled another time, then the next time, the phone call came as expected, they only ask me some very simple questions such as what's the difference between java and C++, most of time I talking about my project which the interviewer seems interested in on it too.
All seem going smoothly, however, two weeks later, I was told that the position was already filled.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How the difference of C++ and java reflects on my project.