I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sept 2012
Interview
Got the interview from campus career fair.
It was originally an one hour interview on campus, but I think I did well in the interview and they asked me to stay and wait for next round. After three rounds of one hour interview (5 min rest), I made it to the HR and she was nice and asked me a lot on my future plans and what kind of job I was seeking.
I was also told that Bloomberg will give me the final decision in a week. After a week, I received an email saying that I was reject... : ( .
I think the reason why I didn't get in is that I completely messed up my third round. The interviewer was a manager of several projects and he asked a lot of knowledge-based questions that I have never heard of...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Write a pseudo code to print out all the permutations of a given string.
2. Write a node delete function for singly-linked list in C++ with only the node given... no head pointer given!
3. Compilation problem of declaring reference variable in C++.
The first round is a phone interview that takes 45 min. After several days I got the email saying that I wad invited to the on site interview in New York. There were two interviewers this time.
I applied online, and few days after, the HR email me to schedule a phone interview date with the interviewer, the first scheduled time nothing happen, so I scheduled another time, then the next time, the phone call came as expected, they only ask me some very simple questions such as what's the difference between java and C++, most of time I talking about my project which the interviewer seems interested in on it too.
All seem going smoothly, however, two weeks later, I was told that the position was already filled.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How the difference of C++ and java reflects on my project.