Financial Software Developer Intern 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 68% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Financial Software Developer Intern roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 98 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 Financial Software Developer Intern according to 98 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 26%
Phone interview: 23%
Group panel interview: 20%
Skills test: 17%
Personality test: 5%
Background check: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Other: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Feb 2014
Interview
Applied online thru university's career portal. I had an initial 45 min phone interview which had pretty basic syntax based and algorithm questions. No coding was involved in this interview. Then went to NY 10 days after my phone interview. I had an interview there with 2 employees of R&D team. They always start the interview with some general and behavioral questions like Why Bloomberg ? Your biggest accomplishment till now , etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Why Bloomberg ?
2) 1 thing you would like to change about Bloomberg ?
3) They will grill you on your resume. Know every thing that you write on it.
4) Implementing queue using stack library in C ?
5) A question on BFS.
6) A puzzle - A mobile phone company is launching a new product (mobile phone) which they say is unbreakable if its thrown from a certain height (a threshold). You are given 2 phones. Find the threshold height of the product if you can throw it from any floor of a 100 story building ?
The first round is a phone interview that takes 45 min. After several days I got the email saying that I wad invited to the on site interview in New York. There were two interviewers this time.
I applied online, and few days after, the HR email me to schedule a phone interview date with the interviewer, the first scheduled time nothing happen, so I scheduled another time, then the next time, the phone call came as expected, they only ask me some very simple questions such as what's the difference between java and C++, most of time I talking about my project which the interviewer seems interested in on it too.
All seem going smoothly, however, two weeks later, I was told that the position was already filled.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How the difference of C++ and java reflects on my project.