I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sep 2015
Interview
Spoke to Bloomberg Engineers at Career Fair [was asked to reverse a linked list on paper] and was scheduled for an interview the next day on school campus. Ended up doing three interviews in four days. Received an email from the recruiter a week later asking for any deadlines [which I didn't at the time]. Didn't hear anything for two weeks, then sent an email to the recruiter informing her I had received offers and had to reply in the next three weeks. Got an email the next morning saying she'll get to me soon. Got a call that afternoon with the offer.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
[At career fair] Reverse a linked list with O(1) space
[First interview] Given a map of flights and miles accumulated, a starting location, and the maximum number of flights, find the path to travel the max possible distance without going over the max number of flights and end at the starting location
[Second interview] Print the path between two nodes in a BST
[Second interview] Implement a method that, when called, returns whether or not that method has been called more than 10 times in the previous 10 seconds
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Philadelphia, PA) in Sep 2015
Interview
On campus Interview, 50 minutes long, 2 interviewers, 2 algorithm questions and also resume background questions. Resume background questions involved projects listed and basic knowledge. They also asked about your career interests and relative concepts. Two algorithm questions are asked by one per interviewer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
given an integer input stream, and more and more integers are still going in. build an algorithm to return 3 minimum integers at any point of time.
I applied through college or university. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Milaan) in Oct 2015
Interview
Apply through career day at university.
Interwiewed in their Milan office, 1 hour process with two of them. First 15-20 minutes talking about myself, explanation of one project I did in datail. Then technical questions.
I did not pass, but it was a very nice experience, I felt very comfortable because they make you feel like that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Array of number in input of N-1 elements, starting from 0, with one number missing, e.g N=5, array=[0 2 3 4 5], missing number =1. Find the missing number.
2) You have a recursive grammar with alphabet ∑={(,)}. A well-defined string is a string with a closed bracket after an open one. You can not close brackets without open a corrisponding one first. e.g ()()() or ((())) or (())()((())). Your function has a string with that alphabet in input, find if it is well-defined.