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Bloomberg Software Dev |
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hints |
| Date Posted: |
01/08/2006 |
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I just got recruited out of college this semester (I graduate in december) and I received and accepted an offer for financial application developer (don't ask me what it means, supposedly all the different R&D titles just mean "programmer"). Anyways, the campus interview is just to get your foot in the door. The real interview is if they bring you to NY and stick you in a room for 5 hours with 6 different interviewers. THAT is the real interview. The campus interview seems to be mostly weeding out people with bad attitudes or who are completely incompetent. I was asked the basic "why do you want to work for us, why should we want you to work for us" type questions, and some basic data structures problems. From the amount of people from my class that got callbacks, it seems that if you know your stuff, and are genuinely enthusiastic about Bloomberg, then you probably have a good chance for callback. If you don't know what a seg fault is or how to prevent one in your code, or you don't know what the stock market is, or you are extremely shy or nervous or introverted, you probably won't get a callback. My campus interviewers were really personable and enthusiastic, and they probably expected the same out of me. Same with my onsite interview. During my onsite interview I feel that I was able, in some small way, to connect at a personal level with almost every person I met and interviewed with. I think this is what they like to see. I am also probably marginally more financially literate than the average techie, which helped a lot. If you think about it, you wouldn't apply to Id Software if you have never played a first-person shooter before, so why to Bloomberg if you don't know anything or care about the financial world. As a last tip, Bloomberg is a very flashy company with very fashionable corporate branding. While the R&D work environment is VERY casual, if you walk into the interview looking like your mom had to tie your Star Wars tie for you, you will not make a good impression. If you're not a sharp dresser or at least capable of sharp dressing, head over to your local department store and ask the best dressed salesperson to help you pick out something. |
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I've got a phone interview coming next week.
createdestroyrepeat can you be more specific about the tech questions that they asked you: you mentionned data structures ...
Thanx
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