Bloomberg Financial Software Developer interview questions

Took 2 weeks for the recruiter to call me and then a week later the interview was scheduled. Questions were easy c/c++ based questions but tricky in the sense that they were not logic based but relied on your level of preparation in that area.

One 45 min phone interview followed by on site interview with three team members. The phone interview was quite easy. Standard technical C++ questions related to exceptions (what happens when a destructor or constructor throw one, what are virtual functions, etc). Nothing very difficult. He also asked what books about C++ and which important C++ people/blogs I follow. In person interview went well I thought. The first interviewer asked me to implement merge sort. The other question was to find k largest values in a very big vector efficiently. The second interviewer asked me to design an interface to a function (or a class) that finds a zero of a give function and he wanted to see the most general interface possible. The third interviewer, the guy who I had the phone interview with asked me about smart pointers and writing an exception safe assignment operator. All three were very nice and guided me through the process. I did stumble on few of the questions but eventually ended up answering all of them.