Bloomberg Financial Applications Engineer interview questions

Applied online. 1 week later, was invited to take an online IQ type test, which was straightforward and mostly knowledge independent (some basic graph theory helps with a very small number of the questions, but not worth spending time on if you don't already know it). 2 weeks after taking the test, I received an email that I was through to the next round, a phone interview, which happened 1 further week later. Phone interviewer was pleasant. Started with general questions about my background, why Bloomberg and the usual stuff then some technical questions. This interview is about knowing data structures and algorithms with minimal emphasis on coding. Nothing to be scared about. Unfortunately, I blew it by preparing for the wrong thing/nervousness over first interview so no details about later rounds.

The common process of interviews should be 1 phone interview + on-site interviews(3 rounds). For phone interviews, I think they always give 3 kinds of questions, one for C/C++ basic, one for data structure and one for algorithms. Sometimes they ask classical brain teasers. I strongly suggest interviewees picking up some basic C/C++ concepts and preparing for low-level questions like memory allocations, even you don't use C/C++ in daily programming. I think most of the interviewers are familiar with C/C++ so they still ask low-level and data structure questions based on C/C++. For data structure and algorithms, I think the questions are pretty common and not difficult at all. They asked about the differences between array&vectors and then asked me to generate all anagrams in a list of words.