Financial Software Developer Internship Interview Questions

Financial Software Developer Intern

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

Sep 7, 2011

Write a function to check if a given tree is a valid binary search tree or not.

Financial Software Developer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

Jan 25, 2012

Given 99 numbers from 1 to 100 no-duplicate, find the number that is not there between 1 to 100; given 98 numbers from 1 to 100 no-duplicate, find the two numbers missing between 1 to 100.

Financial Software Developer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

Jan 13, 2012

There are 10 boxes of apples. Each apple in the boxes weights 1 pound, except that one of the boxes contains bad apples, which weights 0.9 pound each. You are given a digital weight (not a scale), and you can take apples out of the boxes. what is the minimum time of weighs to find out which box has bad apples? I gave one solution of 3 times using divide and conquer, but the interviewer said that 1 step is possible. So I couldn`t come up with the solution.

Financial Software Engineer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

Sep 30, 2011

How to avoid having instances of your class created on the stack

Financial Software Engineer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

Oct 3, 2011

Given an continuous integer array, if there is one number missing, how to find it out without sorting? How about two numbers?

Financial Software Engineer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

Nov 4, 2011

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

2013 Financial Software Engineer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

Apr 23, 2013

You have DB which stored employee ID and a cache. Design how to manage a cache from employee ID took from DB.

Financial Applications Developer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

Jan 8, 2014

Is there any algorithm to verify whether a linked list is circular or not?

Financial Software Developer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

Feb 19, 2014

gave me a tree of 3 level and provided me a number that contains the level number and asked me to code a program that would print the nodes on that level in the tree.

Financial Software Developer Intern

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

Jul 21, 2014

Counting the number of anagrams of one string in another string