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 1,459 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 1,459 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 online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Dec 2015
Interview
Passed a Hackerrank phone screen and got an offer for on-site interview. As other reviewers have mentioned, the on-site interview process is very disorganized; I didn't even get an email about the schedule for the day. This might in fact be intentional, since your interviewer escorts you out early after the first two technical interviews if you don't pass. I never even got a chance to speak to anyone in HR during the entire day. Sure you might make your interview process slightly more efficient by doing this, but at the cost of alienating those who you've judged through only two imperfect interviews. Makes you think about how they treat their employees here...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Reverse a string, finding islands in a grid, designing a data structure that stores counts of words in a text file as well as every line.
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.
Fairly simple. Phone call then onsite. For onsite it was 10 min office tour follow by 1 hr interview then 1 hours system design and 30 mins manager interview. Interviewers were nice and the recruiter was accommodating.
5 rounds first 3 being leetcode coding ones and the last 2 being behavioral. The first three are the hardest asking mainly taggeed questions and the rest are not that bad