Bloomberg LP Interview Questions
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AnswersInterviewer> What's the differnce between C# and Java?
- Karthik Srinivasan April 17, 2006
My Answere> C# can overload operators but Java cannot and Java is platform independent and C# is not.| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Terminology & Trivia - 0of 0 votes
AnswersInterviewer> Since STACK does push and pop, so what if the stack pop's the Global variable?
- Karthik Srinivasan April 17, 2006
My Answere> Variables are poped only if it's out of scope..
(My answere was wrong....he said that the Global variables are not stored in Stack!!)| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Terminology & Trivia - 0of 0 votes
AnswersAsked about virtual functions and function pointers?
- Parag February 24, 2006| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
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AnswersDifference between reference and pointers? How can reference go bad?
- Parag February 24, 2006| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Terminology & Trivia - 0of 0 votes
AnswersDifference between malloc and new.
- Parag February 24, 2006| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Terminology & Trivia - 0of 0 votes
AnswersWhat is auto pointer in C++?
- Parag February 24, 2006| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Terminology & Trivia - 0of 0 votes
AnswersSome questions about STL? How can one store different type of objects in vectors or list?
- Parag February 24, 2006| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Terminology & Trivia - 0of 0 votes
AnswerWhat is reference in C++? Where will you the use it?
- Parag February 24, 2006| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Terminology & Trivia - 0of 0 votes
AnswersRemove characters from a string. What is the running time of your algorithm? Can you do better?
- Jeff K January 28, 2006| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Coding - -2of 0 votes
AnswersEverything I said they responded "Are you sure?", "Are you sure about that?"
- Jeff K January 28, 2006| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer General Questions and Comments - -2of 0 votes
AnswersWhile writing the code, they would question it and laugh, trying to trip you up, even when you were right. Supposedly to see how you handle under pressure I guess.
- Jeff K January 28, 2006| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer General Questions and Comments - 0of 0 votes
AnswersThese guys thought they were the best thing ever because they got paid bank and lived in Manhattan. (But they live in Manhattan so it's not really as much as you'd think...)
- Jeff K January 28, 2006| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer General Questions and Comments - 0of 0 votes
AnswersSort of lame questions like:
- Jeff K January 28, 2006
What will this do? int main(){
return main;
}
How much memory will it use each call? (Depends on compiler optimization or not)| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Terminology & Trivia - 0of 0 votes
AnswersWhat is deep copy in C++ ? When would you use it ?
- Srihari January 12, 2006
You will use deep copy when you have dynamically allocated members in a class. Do not forget to mention that you need a corresponding destructor to deallocate.
Please refer to
http://groups.google.com/group/ cse-interview-questions/browse_frm/thread/1e31c59a3580e236/9a6d297742c32463?q=deep&rnum=1#9a6d297742c32463 page for more info.| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Terminology & Trivia - 2of 0 votes
AnswersPuzzle: You've got an 8×8 checkerboard and a bunch of dominoes that each fit nicely on two squares of the checkboard. You can easily tile the entire checkerboard with these dominoes. Now say that you remove two squares, one at one corner and the other at the opposite corner. You're left with 62 squares. Can you tile this with the dominoes? If so, show how. If not, prove why not.
- Srihari January 12, 2006| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Microsoft Software Engineer / Developer Brain Teasers - 0of 0 votes
AnswersIs FORTRAN pass by value or pass by reference.
- Srihari January 12, 2006
Ans: parameter in FORTRAN are passed by reference| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Terminology & Trivia - 0of 0 votes
AnswersWhat did you use to connect perl to database ?
- Srihari January 12, 2006| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Database - 0of 0 votes
AnswersWhat is the command in perl to remove leading and trailing whitespace ?
- Srihari January 12, 2006
Ans: Chomp| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Terminology & Trivia - 0of 0 votes
AnswersWhy do I want to work for Bloomberg?
- vodangkhoa January 05, 2006| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Behavioral - 0of 0 votes
AnswersAsked me about XML. XML was on my resume but I don't know much about it. I only have used it a few times. Note to self - take anything that I don't know too well about off my resume.
- vodangkhoa January 05, 2006| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer General Questions and Comments - 0of 0 votes
AnswersAsked about unix commands
- vodangkhoa January 05, 2006| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Terminology & Trivia - 0of 0 votes
AnswerDiscussed OOP concepts and gave examples.
- vodangkhoa January 05, 2006| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
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AnswersWhat is difference between Java and C++.
- vodangkhoa December 20, 2005| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Terminology & Trivia - 0of 0 votes
AnswersWhat's the difference between Linked List and ArrayList?
- vodangkhoa December 20, 2005| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Terminology & Trivia - 0of 0 votes
AnswersWhy is Virtual Memory important?
- vodangkhoa December 20, 2005| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Computer Architecture & Low Level - 0of 0 votes
AnswersImplement a Garbage Collector for C++.
- vodangkhoa December 20, 2005| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Software Engineer / Developer Object Oriented Design Coding Algorithm