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      Financial Software Engineer Interview

      4 Nov 2011
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Sept 2011

      Interview

      I gave them my resume during a career fair at my university. They called a week or two later to schedule an on-campus (not their campus, my university campus) interview. They started with a technical interview with 2 of their engineers, and when I seemingly passed that (after all, I knew the answers to the fairly factual questions that they were asking), they forwarded me to a Project Manager with whom I discussed my experience, etc. He explicitly told me after the interview that he was very impressed, even though I had not prompted him for any kind of evaluation. They told me they'd get back to me that very Friday, but they got back to me the following Monday with a rejection. I really don't understand why they rejected me when everything went so seemingly well, and so I'm a little annoyed. I also thought the tech interview was stupid because they mostly asked know-it-or-you-don't factual questions about C++.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      You have a C++ program where you are declaring a variable int x = 2. Somewhere in the same function, but much later, you print the value of x and it's 3000. You haven't altered the value of x anywhere, so it's still supposed to be 2. How do you debug this and why might this have happened?
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      What's a virtual function in C++? How can virtual functions be implemented by the compiler?
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      Is it possible to make a virtual static function in C++?
      1 Answer

      Question 4

      You're given a set of strings. You want to test if any two strings in the set are anagrams.
      2 Answers
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