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      Financial Software Developer Interview

      Dec 19, 2012
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Dec 2012

      Interview

      I applied for a non-computer science entry level position. They got back to me really fast (a couple of days). The phone interview was fast, they asked about my university work and any programming experience. They asked afterwards about stack/ heap, garbage collection in c++ vs java, and other simple things. I was invited to a face to face interview, where I was asked why I wanted to work for Bloomberg, and what makes me a sensible choice. They asked about finding the 1st missing element in a sorted N-1 set of numbers (they were looking at sublinear complexity algorithms, not the sum from 1 to N minus the sum of all elements in the set, which is linear complexity). They asked about finding the maximum loss of a trading day given the numbers, and how I would implement it. They replied roughly 24 hours after the face to face interview. It was a fairly nice experience actually (yes they do have free snacks and coffee at the office and very beautiful aquariums).

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      1st missing number in a sorted set of N-1 integers (numbers between 1 and N) ?
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Keeping track of maximum loss of the day given 1 index and the prices.
      1 Answer