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 54.9% 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 through an employee referral. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Dec 2016
Interview
Two initial phone interviews and then a technical phone interview. Technical phone interview consisted of talking about my resume and 2 technical questions; was able to answer the second one fairly quickly. Received an email a few days later stating that they wanted me to interview on-site.
Flew out to New York (airfare and hotel were paid for) and interviewed in their main office in Manhattan. Received a tour of the office which was amazing and then quickly got into interviews.
First round was 2-on-1. Interviewers introduced themselves and started asking me about my resume/projects. Both were very nice and open to answering any questions I had. 2 technical questions, 1 algorithm and 1 design. Thought I did pretty OK on these (ran out of time during the second question because they wanted to allow time for me to ask questions).
Second round was 1-on-1 with a senior engineer. More questions about resume and then got into rapid-fire, language-specific questions. Told him my main language is Python but he insisted on asking me C++ concepts. 1 technical questions which was fairly difficult but I was able to mostly solve it.
Finished and asked the interviewer whether I'm to stay in the room or not. He hesitated but ended up staying that I should stay in the room (thought I'd made it to the 3rd round). Leaves and comes back 10 minutes later informing me that he screwed up and that he has to walk me out. Bummer.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Deep copy a linked-list with next pointers and random pointers.
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.