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%
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Mar 2021
Interview
There was supposed to be 4 rounds of interviews. But I got rejected after the second round.
- First Round: this is a technical phone screen to discuss your experience and also solve a coding challenge. It's with one engineer.
- Second round: similar to first round but this is happens over a video conferencing app and is with two engineers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- First round: https://leetcode.com/problems/first-unique-character-in-a-string/description/ and then a follow up question was asked about how to find the nth unique character.
- Second round: A question about implementing a function that takes a list of urls and returns the url in the order they are visited with no duplicate urls. If a url is visited the second time it should remove the previous one and update the position.
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.
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.