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%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Background check: 1%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Sep 2017
Interview
I applied to the Bloomberg website in late July, got my first email to do a phone screen in late August. Bloomberg doesn't recruit at my school so I did not have any on-campus interviews.
Phone screen was relatively easy (see Question #1).
My on-site interviews had 4 rounds, around an hour each with 15 minute breaks in-between. Something I've heard is that every candidate gets two rounds but if they escort you out after two, you probably won't get the offer. I had two technical rounds, one with HR, and one with a manager.
The interview experience was really nice, especially the on-site and Discover Day. Bloomberg will fly you out and put you up in a really nice hotel. You get a black car to take you from airport to the hotel. They'll give you a tour of the office building (which is really really cool). You get a reimbursement card at the end for $100, but in my experience it wasn't enough to cover expenses.
Discover Day is a chance to interact with the other potential interns and full-timers (all have offers). You also get a chance to talk with Engineers, and even casually talk to several teams. I suspect this was a way to preliminarily team match.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
How can we multiply two square matrices together? Can we improve the algorithm if we know they're sparsely filled?
Round 2 On-Site: Given prices to fly candidates to SF/NY, assign locations such that Bloomberg pays the least money (#1), Systems Design question regarding incoming stream of stock prices (#2)
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.