I took the online assessment test in C. I thought I did not do well, as some of the questions were tough. Nevertheless, I made it to the phone interview.

The interviewer asked about the projects I was involved with in the past year. He also asked me to explain why I chose C/C++ instead of JAVA to implement my projects.

Then there were two programming questions:

• Write code to search and delete an element from a doubly linked list.
• Write a program to reverse each word in a string and remove spaces (e.g., "i am good" to "imadoog").

I gave a solution, then he asked me to do it in-place, which I did as well. These are the easiest questions one can expect, so the possibility of messing up is limited. I was very surprised that I received a rejection. I am still wondering how the "very smart Bloomberg interviewer's" decide whom to select. Maybe they toss a coin at the end of the interview or make a decision before they begin!

My two cents: Take their interview, but put more energy and time preparing for other companies, because for this one, you never know which way the decision would go!

Write code to search for and delete an element from a doubly linked list.

Write a program to reverse each word in a string and remove spaces. For example, "i am good" should become "imadoog".