I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Dec 2012
Interview
Bloomberg visited the career fair of my univ in Sept. I visited their booth and was asked some questions about resume and data structures like the intersection of two arrays. I was asked to give very specific description of how to solve the problem. I then was asked to apply on their website.
2 month later, I got an email for a phone interview. However, it was delayed by another month, because of Sandy. The phone interview is all tech questions about algorithm, data structures, and probability.
After a week, I was invited an in-house interview. Since I am in NY state, they refused to book me a flight to nyc and asked me to take bus.
The interview was in their headquater in manhattan. I faced 3 developers. And the questions were all technical. I failed in one brain teaser, so I didn't get inot the next round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given 10 cups to locate the bottle poisoned wine from a batch of normal ones, you can make any mixture of them and test your mixtures by mouses. However the density of poison in the mixture, the testing mouse will certainly die. And you must give all the mixtures of the 10 cups before the test. There is only one poisoned bottle.
How many bottles of wine you can test at most?
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2012
Interview
First Contacted by HR, Discussed little technical topics and more on the resume.
2nd technical interview for an hour, asked questions listed below:
1. about merging in linklist
2.cycle in linked list
3. Perfect shuffle of cards
4. First repeating number in array
5. Mising and repeating number in array for different ranges.
6. Design of CHESS with some variation.(like intrducng new pieces n new rules)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design the ChEss board game- actually askd to write some code.