I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Apr 2014
Interview
2 rounds of techincal interviews. In both of them I was asked to code, basically algorithms. A problem was given and they had given me screen share access. They saw while I coded. 1st round went cool and I was selected for 2nd round. In the 2nd round the interviewer was very rigid and wanted me to code a particular way. Asked other java questions like garbage collection ,inner classes. Also asked a few database questions like joins and example usage of a left outer join.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me to code a problem that was based on inversions algorithms.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY)
Interview
The interview process for Bloomberg is a long and detailed one. For me, there was an online aptitude test - the top 5% or so would then proceed to the phone interview stage.
There where three phone interviews, each becoming increasingly more complex. The typical C++ questions relating to polymorphism, inheritance, access types, etc. If you make it through these, then you will be invited to New York.
Here is where my impression of the process was soured. I'm a senior software engineer that was being interviewed with a view to working on some of the parallel processing development - something that I have a lot of experience with. I was however interviewed by two junior engineers that were asking college type questions way, way lower in complexity than anything in the phone interviews or aptitude test.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
During the phone interviews questions were asked about the different access types and how they worked with inheritance - particularly 'protected' inheritance.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in May 2014
Interview
Tell me about yourself. projects in your resume. which language are you most familiar with. Basic C++ concept questions. One algorithm question, interviewer kept asking in deep, guid you to the answer. After that, the interviewer asked me if I have any questions. It took about an hour for the interview.