Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Bloomberg with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 53% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 1,458 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Bloomberg overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Bloomberg as a Software Engineer according to 1,458 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 22%
Skills test: 17%
Group panel interview: 10%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Personality test: 2%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY)
Interview
The WORST company I have ever interviewed with. Nothing against the interviewers, they were awesome and helpful. Its the recruitment process that's astonishingly disorganized. First of all, interviewers failed to show up twice for the first interview. Recruiter is slow in rescheduling and responding emails. Then right before the final round for onsite, they canceled my flight and interview just a few days before the final round onsite interview saying that they've found enough interns. Bloomberg is notorious at my school for rejecting people unreasonably and having disorganized recruitment process, this didn't just happen to me but a lot of my friends as well, Yes, their scheduled interviews were canceled because Bloomberg found enough interns.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Bloomberg? Data structure questions such as HashMap, reversing a linked list, sparse matrix multiplication.....
Phone screen went very well, i passed to the onsites and they gave me the problem statement and i proposed a sub-optimal solution. They told to me come up with more optimal solution and didn't give me much time to think about it. They got impatient and gave me a hint. I figured it out and solved the problem, but apparently they thought I needed hints, which I didn't ask for.
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.