I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2013
Interview
I met one recruiter in a on campus info session. Applied online and got an phone interview invitation pretty soon. The interviewer was nice, and asked me a bunch of brain teaser(might have something to do with probability). After one week, I got a positive feed back and was invited to an on-site interview plus company tour.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The phone interview is pretty easy. The on-site one is more technical and they did ask some concept that I did not know of.
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Oct 2015
Interview
First i was contacted by email, by one HR person. After we scheduled an interview by phone to the next day.
The interview was taken by phone and Hancker Hank, and was fast and effective. The interviewer was very nice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about C++ basics, like constructors, destructors, inheritance and const correctness.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in May 2015
Interview
4 rounds. Expect about a week between each round. After 1 phone interview (HR) and 2 Skype interviews, was invited for an 2:1 in-office interview at London office. More interested in VBA and Excel skills. Very conversational. Was given an office tour after the final round, which I took to be a good sign. Received a call with the offer the following morning.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are some array sorting methods you've used in VBA?
What is the most optimal way to transpose arrays onto a worksheet?
What is the default variable type of an undeclared variable in VBA?
When would you use credit spreads?
What option pricing methods do you know? What are their inputs?
What is a swap? A bond? Duration?
Are you familiar with volatile functions?
Have you used VLOOKUP? INDEX? What is the difference between the two?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Mar 2015
Interview
The negotiations started with an hour, over the phone interview with a Bloomberg engineer, who asked couple dozens fairly simple questions on core C++ concepts. The second meeting was with a 2-man panel of senior engineers and was centered around a Web-based coding environment through which couple typical interview problems (each would require tens of lines of C++ code) were expected to be solved and discussed.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Implement a bare minimum single linked list in C++
Financial Applications Developer 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 57% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Financial Applications Developer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 32 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 Applications Developer according to 32 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 21%
Group panel interview: 18%
Skills test: 15%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Personality test: 7%
Background check: 7%
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