• CV and cover letter for initial screening.

Very basic screening, I presume. I believe the majority of people get through to the telephone interview.

• Telephone interview.

Interviewer was very chatty and made me feel very comfortable. Asked about previous job experience and how it relates to Bloomberg. Asked some very simple Java-based questions about arrays, etc. Also asked how Java and C relate, their similarities and differences, and which language was my favorite.

• In-house interview.

Simple, typical interview questions about Bloomberg, motivation for applying for the position, etc. The next stage was a Java case study, as below.

Interview question:

Imagine you have an array with numbers 1 to 100 written in each position. However, one number is missing. Write a program which finds the position and which number is missing.

All interview questions are from the book, How to Crack the Coding Interview.