Bloomberg Senior Software Developer interview questions

I applied through a recruiter, they scheduled a telephonic interview in a week. The interview has three parts, about the resume (10-12 min), coding (45 min) and any questions about the company (5 min). The coding part is not hard. However, they are still in old C++ style and the interviewer did not understand C++ 11 syntax (like the new for loop, auto, shared_ptr etc) and when I asked him if I should write using old C++ he asked me not to. However, it is a little frustrating to hear that they are not taking advantage of the new language feature. During the interview, he gave me an impression that he was very happy with my coding and told me that he is happy with my performance. We had a nice discussion as we develop the program. I completed both questions up to his satisfaction, but after a week I got the response from my recruiter that even though they thought that I am a strong candidate, my skill set doesn’t match with the requirement. It was a surprise to me as I am working on the same field using C++ for 19 years, but still, my skill set does not match with their requirement. Maybe he was not happy when I started using new C++ language features.

You apply and if they find you are a good fit they arrange a knowledge and coding interview. The interviewer was politely and got a good understanding of you knowledge. Moving forward i was applying for a role i was not quite eligible for but the interviewer was polite and received a reply within a few days.