I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in May 2013
Interview
I got an Email from HR and set a Technic Phone interview in one week.
First I was asked a few behavior question, e.g. why this company, how do you know this position. Then I was asked some details about the CV, after than came C++ questions. e.g. copy constructor, assignment operator. And also require to write the code and read to the interviewer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The details about the copy constructor I wasn't well prepared, and you have to write the code on the paper and read out.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Anthisnes) in Dec 2012
Interview
Applied online, got a mail regarding a phone interview in approximately a month. First, we talked about the projects I had listed in my C.V. Interview consisted more in "trivia questions" such as
what is a pointer,
what operations can you do with pointers,
what is a static function in C
what is heap memory / stack memory & difference between them
then from OOP :
what is a class / object / instance?
what is a design pattern / final etiquette
Where are stored local vars?
Where are stored dynamically allocated vrs?
pass by value / pass by refference
what is "This" or "self" ?
Design patterns, where to use them
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name as many differences as you can between a java abstract class and an interface. What is class forwarding and where do you use it?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
Met them at student career fair. Dropped my resume, spoke with the HR team, nothing technical. Got a call 3 days later, requesting and interview session.
First interview: 2 young men, pretty smart and friendly (just want I like). 2 Technical question, - reversing a singly linked list, and another question on people trying to cross a bridge.
Personally, I'll advice you, they are NOT out to trap you or trick you, they just want to see if you get it. I couldn't answer any of the questions in C++, but I got their explanation and proved it to them :).
Second interview was with HR and a Manager. Manager was seriously cool. I like him and and I guess vice versa. We exchanged contacts, and 3 days later, I got the offer.
Interview with manager was more like introducing me to Bloomberg, and showing me super cool stuffs :) Then 1 technical question (open ended) at the end (I got that one right though - it was not all luck). Question: how will you transfer Kind James Bible from point A to B most Efficiently.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All questions were pretty straight forward... you better know C++ or any similar language though ;)