I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2015
Interview
Applied in college in the campus fair. Got back to me with a phone interview. Received further instructions to go for an in house interview to NYC Bloomberg Office (2 interviews were held at the office).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Implement vectors in c++
2. Difference between vectors in stl and arraylist in java
3. You have a sorted array with duplicates. Return the leftmost index of the given value.
4. What's the use of templates in c++ when you can be using objects for everything?
5. When do you get a stack overflow? Can you give a size to the stack?
6. Showed me a template definition from c++ library. Asked me what the InputIterator type is.
7. What happens beneath an asynchronous process?
8. What is the difference between a class template and a function template in c++?
Overall, it was a positive and professional interview experience, though the interviewer was on the stricter side. Unfortunately, I was dealing with an illness and wasn't able to prepare as thoroughly as I wanted to, which left me feeling a bit off throughout the conversation. Despite not feeling my best and facing a tough interviewer, the process was well-structured.
Fairly simple. Phone call then onsite. For onsite it was 10 min office tour follow by 1 hr interview then 1 hours system design and 30 mins manager interview. Interviewers were nice and the recruiter was accommodating.
5 rounds first 3 being leetcode coding ones and the last 2 being behavioral. The first three are the hardest asking mainly taggeed questions and the rest are not that bad