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      Financial Software Developer Interview

      Jul 30, 2009
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Jul 2009

      Interview

      I applied for a Financial Software Development entry level position and when filling my application they asked my strongest programming language among c,c++, and Java. As I had previous experience with Java I selected it as my strongest language. The following day they sent me an email with instructions to take an online skills assessment. Reading this forum, I practiced a few IQ/Intelligence test with good results so I felt confident to take the test. I took the test and to my surprise it was all Java programming questions (syncronisation, inheritance, interfaces, polymorphism, analysing pieces of code, etc). The questions where very specific and not about general OO programming concepts eg. Which one of the following is NOT polymorphic behavior? As I've been out of practice a bit in hands on programming I really struggled with the test. Basically I didn't remember clearly the syntax and got confused with some sentences. My recommendation is that you should study throughly your programming language selection and be ready for tricky questions.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Which one of the following is NOT polymorphic behavior? does java.io have for preventing malicious code from altering Serialized Objects? What support does java.io have for preventing malicious code from altering Serialized Objects?
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      Question 2

      When using an ArrayList as the implementation for a list collection, what happens if adding an element exceeds the ArrayList's capacity?
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