The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Nov 2009
Interview
General interview. Know your C++, algorithms, data structures, pointers, etc. No puzzles. Hash implementation question. I rate this only as a difficult interview because while I thought the interview went well I did not get a call back for that group.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Jul 2007
Interview
Did an online skills test that consisted of STL, Polymorphism, constant, pointers and pointer to a constant, exception handling and namespaces, Usual standard C++ stuff. Anyone doing the test just needs to brush up on there C++, these kind of tests can be easy to pass and easy to fail.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me why do you think you are suitable for this job.
The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Sep 2009
Interview
One initial interview with two Software developers, and then a final round interview with a Manager.
Interviewers asked a lot of questions on approaches to solve hypothetical problems. I never needed to write any actual code. Lots of questions on algorithms and efficency.