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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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Los Angeles, CA) in Oct 2016
Interview
Applied at the career fair. Had a on campus interview two weeks later. The interviews was about 45mins long. Began by asking about projects on my resume, then did some data structure problems. Did pretty well and called for a second interview the second day, focused on implementation and data structures. Did not do well on the second interview, got rejection email in a week.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
data structure for maintaining a leaderboard, allowing updates. Retrieve first k each time
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.