I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
I applied through the bloomberg site and got did a brief telephone interview to setup a programming interview. They didn't turn for the first time, and the interview had to rescheduled. I think, the interviewer and interviewee are not well matched.
The interviewer was asking me to find a looking in a single-linked list, that has a t-shaped split? Was he referring to the loops in Graphs or Trees?
I received an email from Bloomberg HR about an interview. I scheduled the interview for the next week. They gave me a coding assignment, where I had to implement a modified binary tree. The interview was very technical. First they asked me questions on the assignment, how to improve the performance. They also asked me about the O() complexities of different data structures, pointers use in C char strings, the Map data structure. The interviewer was very friendly. I was contacted shortly after the interview to let me know if I will be getting an offer.
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Jan 2012
Interview
Was one online aptitude test and then a second round. Will ask a couple of brainteasers and array stock, sort questions.The brainteasers were unexpected, but you need to be fast, since they also expect you might just google the answer during the call, so if they find out your doing that its over.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Ask you how to add subtract and multiply numbers without using those functions. Questions on arrays, sort, and then brain teasers.