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 54.9% 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. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2013
Interview
scheduled interview at career fair.
the one hour 1-to-1 interview followed the usual pattern: first resume related questions, followed by a technical question, followed by "do you have any questions for me".
the interviewer was a little self-absorbed and kept changing topic to himself/his work/his education and wasn't much interested in listening about me.
he didn't phrase the problem clearly in the technical question part of the interview. so half way through working on the solution, i knew this interview was a waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
using a log generated by a multiprocessor machine, which contains start and end time of each process, find the longest slot of time in which the machine wasn't idle.
the log is sorted by the process's start time.
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.