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      Senior Software Development Engineer Interview

      Nov 27, 2013
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sep 2013

      Interview

      Had an initial phone interview with a HR person and after asking some basic questions about my history and expectations I was told they would get back to me regarding doing at test. They sent me the information regarding the test that evening and I completed it a few days later. I was then told I would be interviewed by 2 engineers again over the phone. Since this was for their database team they ask some questions related to database internals. Specifically, can you explain the life of a query starting from the user issuing the query? This is the only one I really recall since the others were not very significant.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I think the most difficult was the life of query questions which I think I answered fairly well since my last role was as a developer for a major database vendor.
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