Recruiter contacted me. Had a phone interview set up. First phone interview went well. So, they set up another phone interview since I am not local. The position was in NY. 2nd interviewer wasn't too bad, but he really pushed me to code in Java, while I don't have that expertise over the language. I had to kind of force him to write code in c++. I guess he wasn't an expert in c++. He asked me to write thread safe singleton pattern class. I wrote one in c++ (with static Singleton object with lazy initialization). I informed him why I selected static and explained about c++11 guarantees. He then asked me why is c++11 guaranteeing that (Really? I think he probably didn't get much of c++). He asked me two questions. I cracked the first one and kind of slipped bad on 2nd one, because I couldn't recall the syntax for win32 multi-threading APIs (CreateThread, WaitforMultipleObjects, etc..). Interviewer tried to help me, but wasn't enough. In short, first interview was about c++ and algorithms. While 2nd interview was supposed to be more about Java, which is kind of weird. Also, everything in 2nd interview was about multi-threading. See in questions section for the questions asked. 2nd interview sounded like a nice guy, but I think he didn't have enough experience conducting phone interviews because 1) he wasn't open to hearing my ideas about the solution (may be because he didn't know much c++). 2) he wanted me to code in java. I switched the language on hackerrank to c++, he switched it back to java. I then switched it back to c++ and just informed him that Java won't work. lol. That's when I figured out I won't get a recommendation for on-site round. He didn't even let me ask any questions at the end, how immature. If I would have gotten a call further, I would probably have passed the opportunity, because after a few years of experience, one thing I have realized is that business is just people. If you can't work with them or if it is hard to work with them, you probably don't want to do business with them. Its that simple. Good luck Bloomberg!