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I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jun 2010
Interview
Posted my resume on Dice and received a call the next day through a placement agency. They asked me for convenient times for the interview and set up an interview with Bloomberg.
The first round was fairly straightforward - questions on UNIX, TCP/IP, Basic C/C++ questions
The second round was a little more challenging - questions on data-structures and algorithms, class design etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
why cant union in c++ have a static data member or virtual function?
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Aug 2010
Interview
Took a 45 min. phone interview for a C/C++ developer position. Questions were mostly directed at language concepts such as "what is a static in c/c++", "what is a virtual function", " what is the difference between malloc and new". I seemd to do ok on those. There were also some SQL questions and database design questions which is odd because I don't really have that in my background. I'm a Linux kernel develper. Since I have an EE background and not CS I ran into trouble with the algorithmic part of the interview. I really don't have any experience designing hashing/sorting functions for large amounts of data. Obviously a wrong fit for this position. I was expecting something more along the lines of Unix/TCP/UDP/IP type questions. Interview never went there.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Design a database to hold authors, books, and multiple authors per book. What would the tables look like.
Design a sorting algorithm and/or data structure to find all the data members from one array that exist in another array. What would be the time complexity of a large data set or a small data set.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Jun 2010
Interview
The process was kind of fast, from the moment I got a phone call to got an email for the online testing. The online testing was a little difficult, mainly about c++.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Difference between function override and overload.