Financial Software Developer Interview Questions
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AnswersWhat is a fact table and dimension table?
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Answers1. What does the 'final' key word do in Java?
- Bloomberg Interview February 22, 2009
2. Does C++ provide similar machanism? If not, how would you implement it?| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
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AnswersDo you know what a mutex is? Explain how it works.
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Answers1. Do you know what a singleton is? Explain.
- Bloomberg Interview February 20, 2009
2. How do you make it thread-safe?| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
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Answers1. What's the difference between a pointer and a reference?
- Bloomberg Interview February 20, 2009
2. What's the difference between a class and a struct?
3. How do you allocate memory in C++? What's the difference between malloc and new?| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
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Answersint x;
- Anonymous January 13, 2009
function()=x;
Is it legal or illegal code?Why?| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
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AnswersThere are four different treasue chests each one containing gold, silver, brass and copper. There are 100 participants who try to find which chest contains which treasure.
- Treasure Chests January 09, 2009
In the end, it appears, that 23 have found none correctly, 58 have only 1 correct and 14 have 2 correct. How many have 3 correct? and how many have 4 correct?| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
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Answerswhat are fork exec,IPC
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Answerswhat is the drawback of strcpy,how can the drawback be fixed
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AnswersWhat are threads,difference between thread and process,synchronization,what is the disadvantage of using threads?
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AnswersDo you remember the name of the person you spoke to in the first round? Why do you think you are good for this role? How much do you expect to get paid - how much base/bonus? Where do you see yourself in 5 years? What do you think is the main difference between a life in academics versus a corporate life? Give an example where you had a deadline to meet (in a team situation) and how did you do in that situation?
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AnswersWhat data structure do you prefer to use to implement a stack?
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AnswersWhat do you understand by deadlock?
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AnswersDifference between C-strings and string class in C++.
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AnswersWrite a code that displays the bit pattern corresponding to an unsigned decimal integer.
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Bloomberg LP Financial Software Developer Bit Manipulation - 1of 1 vote
AnswersReverse words in a string (e.g. |i||a|m|'\0'| ---->
- neil turok December 17, 2008
|a|m||i|'\0'|).| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Bloomberg LP Financial Software Developer Arrays - 0of 0 votes
AnswersGiven a number (say, 7251), write a code to give the number of digits it has (i.e. 4 for 7251).
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Bloomberg LP Financial Software Developer Algorithm - 0of 0 votes
AnswerAsked me to write a piece of code in Java to output a file in XML format, and then something about OOP (general stuff like polymorphism etc)
- Mallika Iyer October 27, 2008
Lot of HR, tell me about yourself, what do you know about Bloomberg, things like that.
Overall atmosphere was very laid-back, but I was too nervous, it probably showed.
They work with a lot of legacy stuff, company ambiance is great, apart from the usual cubicle like environment.| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
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Answerswhat is segmentation fault? given an example of when seg fault would occur
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AnswersGiven a 3 liter jug and a 5 liter jug, explain how you would measure 4 liters.
- xyz September 12, 2008
He was making it more complex by asking to formulate an equation for that .. was just for stress check..| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
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AnswersHow to debug thousands of lines of software code ?
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Answersdeclaration of "static function" -- what it means ?
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Bloomberg LP Financial Software Developer Coding - 0of 0 votes
AnswersWhat does this code do?
- xyz September 12, 2008
int *p=0;
double *q=0;
printf("%u %u",p,q);
p++;
q++;
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Bloomberg LP Financial Software Developer Coding - 0of 0 votes
AnswersCode for replacing multiple spacing by single spacing in a string...
- xyz September 12, 2008
e.g. " a b c d" --> " a b c d".| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
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AnswersBrain teaser. You have 8 coins, only 1 is more heavy. How to detect it
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AnswersList as many data structures as you can think of. How do you detect a loop in a linked list?
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AnswersYou have a class that many libraries depend on. You need to modify the class for one application. Which of the following changes require recompiling all libraries before it is safe to build the application?
- zhizun July 22, 2008
a. add a constructor
b. add a data member
c. change destructor into virtual
d. add an argument with default value to an existing member function| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
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AnswersWhat is memory leakage? how do you detect it?
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AnswersWrite code to remove spaces from a string in-place
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