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 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Feb 2014
Interview
Had an initial phone interview and then an on site interview. The phone interview was pretty standard questions about C and C++ with some string parsing. On site was 4 rounds, 2 rounds of engineers, 1 round of management and 1 round with HR. The onsite questions were challenging but the people were nice and it was fair. Lots of questions about hash tables and I had to talk about synchronization a fair deal.
They were very aggressive with the questioning. If you said something you were expected to back it up and even if you were right, they tried to make you feel like you could be wrong and see if you could really defend your position.
A lot of the questions started out not too difficult and then got harder as the interviewers imposed additional restrictions. It seemed like they really wanted to see if you could come at a problem from multiple points of view.
A solid understanding of data structures and basic algorithms as well as flexibility to modify what you already know on the fly will serve you well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A technical question about traversing a made up data structure somewhat similar to a binary tree but with additional restrictions. Was not too difficult to do recursively but then they asked for an iterative solution which was more challenging.
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.