I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sep 2014
Interview
Initial on campus technical interview, followed by a second technical interview the next day, followed by a technical/fit interview and an hr interview the next week. Whole process was over in a week. Technical interviews were with two software developers at a time. In the technical interviews, was asked between 2 and 5 questions. Interviews are difficult, but interviewers are nice and provide hints when necessary. Recruiter was very friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have a collection of servers that store integers in an unsorted order. Each server can have a different number of integers. If a user wanted to find the median at any given time, how would you find the median?
It was a first round of a leetcode problem and talking through our past experiences and then after that the next round was 3 different interviews with 3 leetcode problems.
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
This was my first round, I was scheduled for this hackerrank live coding interview within 2 weeks of applying.
The interviewer was not helpful at all with answering follow-up questions. Said he’s not allowed to do that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Giving a string return, the longest substring without repeating.
I think this is a leetcode easy question
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Cambridge, MA) in Sep 2022
Interview
I really enjoyed the interview process. It was in-person so it was less intimidating since I could actually collaborate with the interviewer. The questions were a bit challenging but working with the engineers mad getting hints made it manageable.
Software Engineering applicants have rated the interview process at Bloomberg with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 56% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineering roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 56 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 Engineering according to 56 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 31%
One on one interview: 26%
Skills test: 18%
Presentation: 11%
Group panel interview: 8%
Personality test: 3%
Background check: 1%
Drug test: 1%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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