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      Software Engineer Interview

      Oct 17, 2020
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Oct 2020

      Interview

      1. Interview with HR. Asked about what kind of job would be interesting for me. 2. HR found a team that was willing to interview me, so they arranged a coding interview. (Similar to a Hackerrank/Leecode problem.) 3. It went well, the next stage was two coding interviews. One of these didn't go well. The interviewers gave me a question. I said that at I'm not entirely sure what a binary search tree is. It just didn't jump into my mind, I just would have needed to think it through, but they started to ask some helping questions like what binary means. Anyway, after arriving to the definition, I described my solution and wanted to start coding. They told me they understood my solution plan, as a next step I should write *something*, that's not code yet, but describes what the code will do. I think they wanted some pseudocode, but I got completely confused by this request. I mean, I was already in a Python editor and I've already outlined the algorithm. Anyway, I expressed some confusion but started to write something that's not code in the hope it would become clearer what they want me to do. That resulted in a disaster. :D I said and wrote things like: okay, I'll just want to get the next element of the tree. But since it isn't real code, I don't put the vertices into a data structure, just say tree.next_child(). They told me that's not how you get the next child. I expressed my hope that they would allow me to write code instead of this *something*. One of the interviewers said no. I have to add that the other interview was really nice.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Why did you apply to Bloomberg?
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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 11, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg

      Interview

      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.

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      Question 1

      why do you want to work at bloomberg?
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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 8, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Bloomberg

      Interview

      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.

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      one leetcode style question: longest substring
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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 1, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Bloomberg

      Interview

      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.

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      Bloomberg interviews FAQs

      • 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%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Software Engineer(745) ;
        2. Senior Software Engineer(454) ;
        3. Account Manager(321) ;
        4. Analyst(302) ;
        5. Sales(176) ;
        6. Intern(171) ;
        7. Sales Representative(168) ;
        8. Analytics(132) ;
        9. Global Data Analyst(123) ;
        10. Reporter(108) ;
        11. Data Analyst(106) ;
        12. Software Engineer(Internship)(104) ;
        13. Financial Analyst(99) ;
        14. Financial Software Developer(93) ;
        15. Senior Software Developer(92) .


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