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 1,459 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 1,459 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 through college or university. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY)
Interview
Turned in resume at Career fair and filled out online application. Was contacted about the phone interview a few months later. On site interview was scheduled awhile after that. Only one interviewer for phone interviewer, but onsite had 2 rounds with 2 interviewers each.
Talking with some other candidates I probably should have been given another question during round 2, but I (presumably) ran out of time. We were also given a tour of the building prior to starting the 2 interview rounds.
Overall process took many months, with the career fair/application being in September, phone interview in early November, and on site being in mid January.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
(Phone Interview)
Given a binary tree (showed an example of said binary tree), and a specific node, find the next larger node in the tree
(On Site)
Given a single linked list with both a next pointer pointing to the next node, and a "random" pointer pointing to a random node in the single linked list (including itself as an option), perform a deep copy of said linked list.
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.
5 rounds first 3 being leetcode coding ones and the last 2 being behavioral. The first three are the hardest asking mainly taggeed questions and the rest are not that bad