CareerCup

  • Questions
  • Forum
  • Resume Tips
  • RSS
  • Sign In

Bloomberg LP Interview Question for Financial Software Developers


Country: United States
Interview Type: In-Person
More Questions from This Interview



Comment hidden because of low score. Click to expand.
2
of 2 vote

Exact, external merge sort is a possibility, ..

- tpcz February 16, 2014 | Flag Reply
Comment hidden because of low score. Click to expand.
1
of 1 vote

Sort chunks of data unsing radis sort in O(k*n) complexity. Then merge them.

- glebstepanov1992 February 17, 2014 | Flag Reply
Comment hidden because of low score. Click to expand.
0
of 0 votes

Best solution, since it uses all the given conditions and because radix sort is generally quicker for numbers of certain capacity.

- igorfact June 28, 2014 | Flag
Comment hidden because of low score. Click to expand.
0
of 0 vote

External Sorting!

- Heisenberg February 16, 2014 | Flag Reply
Comment hidden because of low score. Click to expand.
0
of 0 vote

Yes external merge sort is used to sort the 10 digit numbers as we have been provided with the memory constraint of 20 megabyte

- vgeek February 17, 2014 | Flag Reply
Comment hidden because of low score. Click to expand.
0
of 0 vote

use file mapping then apply classic merge sort to pointer on this file. almost no memory will be used.

- LBaralgeen March 12, 2014 | Flag Reply
Comment hidden because of low score. Click to expand.
0
of 0 vote

Radix sort: partition the file into buckets with leading 0, 1, ..., 9. If any bucket(s) is/are too large, partition them further by the second digit etc. Then sort each bucket in memory using any method. Then concatenate the buckets. That requires doubling the disk space usage during sorting.

- mike800 June 03, 2016 | Flag Reply


Add a Comment
Name:

Writing Code? Surround your code with {{{ and }}} to preserve whitespace.

Books

is a comprehensive book on getting a job at a top tech company, while focuses on dev interviews and does this for PMs.

Learn More

Videos

CareerCup's interview videos give you a real-life look at technical interviews. In these unscripted videos, watch how other candidates handle tough questions and how the interviewer thinks about their performance.

Learn More

Resume Review

Most engineers make critical mistakes on their resumes -- we can fix your resume with our custom resume review service. And, we use fellow engineers as our resume reviewers, so you can be sure that we "get" what you're saying.

Learn More

Mock Interviews

Our Mock Interviews will be conducted "in character" just like a real interview, and can focus on whatever topics you want. All our interviewers have worked for Microsoft, Google or Amazon, you know you'll get a true-to-life experience.

Learn More