I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Mar 2010
Interview
I applied online and has to complete a series of C questions. Questions are tricky and you have to be careful. Within one day completing the test, I got an email from HR requesting for a phone interview. The phone interview is about 40 minutes with 2 person asking technical questions. After waiting more than few weeks after the phone interview and still no response, I follow up with the HR, and immediately I got a reply for an in-house invitation to Bloomberg. They paid for my flight + hotel + car transportation from airport to hotel. The on-site interview consists of a series of technical questions with 2 engineers, and behavioral questions with a recruiter, and finally got to chat with a more senior engineer and a lot of opportunity to ask questions. The on-site interview is about 2 hours. I got a $100 gift card for travel + meal expenses reimbursement after the interview. They told me to wait for couple weeks for the hiring decision.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what is deadlock? how to detect if a deadlock has occurred and how to troubleshoot?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
Briefly asked some questions about my resume, then asked 2 technical questions. Prior to the interview they told me to prepare for the live coding on hackerank but the interviewer said he had his style so he would just ask questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. how to stole a sequence of integer then get the median?
2. what is the big O of this algorithem
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Feb 2011
Interview
This was a phone interview for BVAL quantitative developer position. The questions were not difficult but the interviewer was in a great hurry and didn't wait for answers. I feel I wasn't agressive enough in my replies. It was like a stress test.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Jun 2010
Interview
A recruiter helped submitting the cv to the group, after one week, they decided to schedule a phone interview. The phone interview schedule very quickly - within one week. The interviewer is nice. There are no too much brainteasers. The interview mainly focus on the math, probability, stochastic calculus, and c++ programming questions.