Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Bloomberg with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 57% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Bloomberg overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Bloomberg as a Software Engineer according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 20%
Group panel interview: 10%
Presentation: 10%
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I applied through university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
Got an interview through a career fair held at my college. Had the interview in school with 2 software engineers. The interview as an hour long. They asked a few fit questions, like why I was interested in Bloomberg, what I would be interested in working in, etc. for maybe 5 minutes. The rest of the time was devoted to technical questions.
I was asked the following questions:
1) Find second largest number in array of ints
2) Fibonacci numbers. Asked for optimization to recursive solution
3) Find height of tree
4) Find longest path in tree
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the height of a tree, and then find the longest path in a tree.
15 minutes talking about resume, 45 minutes for 2 medium leetcode style coding questions (using code share), the interviewer was very friendly and communication is even more important than passing all test cases.
Overall, it was a positive and professional interview experience, though the interviewer was on the stricter side. Unfortunately, I was dealing with an illness and wasn't able to prepare as thoroughly as I wanted to, which left me feeling a bit off throughout the conversation. Despite not feeling my best and facing a tough interviewer, the process was well-structured.
Fairly simple. Phone call then onsite. For onsite it was 10 min office tour follow by 1 hr interview then 1 hours system design and 30 mins manager interview. Interviewers were nice and the recruiter was accommodating.