Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Bloomberg (New York, NY) en may 2012
Entrevista
Applied online.
1 week later, was invited to take an online IQ type test, which was straightforward and mostly knowledge independent (some basic graph theory helps with a very small number of the questions, but not worth spending time on if you don't already know it).
2 weeks after taking the test, I received an email that I was through to the next round, a phone interview, which happened 1 further week later. Phone interviewer was pleasant. Started with general questions about my background, why Bloomberg and the usual stuff then some technical questions. This interview is about knowing data structures and algorithms with minimal emphasis on coding. Nothing to be scared about.
Unfortunately, I blew it by preparing for the wrong thing/nervousness over first interview so no details about later rounds.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Given a sorted sequence of 1 million numbers, write a program to find all pairs of numbers that add to 10.
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 1 semana. Acudí a una entrevista en Bloomberg en mar 2014
Entrevista
Applied in mid February. After a few weeks, received an email asking to set up a phone interview. I was re-scheduled for interview a week later. Then got a call from one of the software developers. Interviewer was very nice, kind and understanding. Asked questions about my prior software developing experience, basic C++ questions, etc.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Average interview. Interviewer asked when do we use BST and hash table? What is the complexity of search or insertion for BST?
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en Bloomberg
Entrevista
Applied online, got a phone interview. They had a lot of applicants; I believe the job is currently filled (2014).
Phone interview had only tech questions. Interviewee picked at my resume and posed in depth questions about SQL that I used for a project. I was stumped on some questions that I thought were unfair. (e.g. I was asked how I would implement a Foreign key constraint if I were designing that algorithm)
I was then asked for a sorting algorithm and Big O. Then how I would sort the array if I knew the range of integers.
Didn't know data structures/algorithms for interview and it hurt my interview...didn't receive an offer and I wasn't surprised.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
How would you implement a Foreign key constraint if you were to design it?
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Bloomberg (New York, NY) en ene 2014
Entrevista
For the phone interview, I was asked for basic concepts about vector, array, linked list and their difference. Another question is given you a book, there is a function that you can get a word every time, how to find out the five words appear most frequent ?
Got the invitation for onsite interview the second day. There were four rounds, the first two were technical interview, the third round I saw HR, the last round was a manager.
1. There are consecutive numbers from 0 to 100, one is missing, find out which one? And improve the algorithm. How about using math method?
2. Search and sort question and improve accuracy.
3. Given you lots of left and right bracelets, how to test if the bracelets make pairs.
4. Delete a node in linked list.