Software 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 53% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer 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 Developer 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 through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY)
Interview
I applied via my college recruitment. Got an initial phone round. The phone question was average in difficulty. The question required good knowledge of recursion and hashing. Passed phone round. Was scheduled for onsite in the same week itself. Interviewed at Bloomberg NY HQ. Got my offer within a week of my onsite interview. The interviewers are nice and helpful and the HR are so quick and organized in their interview scheduling and notifying the results.
Bloomberg has a gorgeous office. The interviews are slightly difficult, the interviewers are helpful and guide you if your stuck as long as you keep thinking out loud.
I interviewed on a Thursday and received my offer on the following Monday!! I had a competing offer and they matched it during salary negotiations. They has awesome perks and benefits too.
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Question 1
My onsite interview consisted of total 4 rounds. 3 of them were fully technical and one was with the HR. They expect you to answer on paper using pen/pencil rather than white boarding.
Round 1: 2 Senior Devs. I answered about 4 coding questions. They included sorting algos, hashing and DP. Id say they were medium level questions on leetcode.
Round 2: 2 Seniors Devs. Answered 2 questions. These were completely new questions I had never encountered anything such before. They required knowledge of mathematics (line equations, slopes, etc), caching mechanism and distributed systems.
Round 3: HR. Very general Questions.
Round 4: One Very Senior Dev. He asked system design question. What components would you use to design systems, how to architect them, make them salable and justify all your design decisions.
They provide 20 mins lunch break in between. You are uninterrupted here no engineers or HR to talk to just enjoy your meal.
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.
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.