I had interviews with them at least 10 to 12 times over the years, and they are the worst ones to interview with. They ask all these low-level compiler questions. If you answer one question correctly, they dig deeper into how the compiler works and all the features of the language, usually C++. Most of this information is just rote academic knowledge, which has very little commercial value, but they expect you to know it.

The last interview, some of the questions did not make any sense. When I looked them up, it confirmed that the interviewer did not know what he was asking. I would forget talking to Bloomberg. It is a waste of time. If you get past the telephone interview and they bring you in, they will ask more of these rote knowledge questions.

They hire very few people, and I was almost never impressed when talking to the people who did the interviewing. They did not seem to have a clue about the applications they are working on and could not follow anything when I described what I had done in the past to design systems that did similar things to what they were supposed to be working on.

The place is also filled with almost all H-1Bs, so most Americans will not have a chance of getting in there.

What happens when a constructor fails?

And then, what happens when a destructor fails?