Entry Level Software Engineer 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 81% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Entry Level Software Engineer roles take an average of 34 days to get hired, when considering 27 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 Entry Level Software Engineer according to 27 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 41%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 14%
Group panel interview: 9%
Presentation: 7%
Drug test: 2%
Personality test: 2%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Oct 2017
Interview
All the process was very smooth. Firstly I was asked to complete phone interview (about 30 minutes), quite easy algorithm interview. The second one - video interview with two engineers, as easy as the first one. Two questions related to data structures. After a week I was offered to go to London for the in-house interview. Bloomberg provided an invitation letter for a Visa Centre and paid for flights to London and a night in a hotel. Onsite they provided a quick tour of their great building and a breakfast with engineers. The first interview was a coding one, quite easy (binary search in matrix and data structures). The second one was about previous projects, experience, interests and software design. Was rejected after this one.
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Tel Aviv)
Interview
One hour technical interview conducted over Zoom for a python & c++ role. The interview focused on operating systems concepts and multithreading. Questions covered synchronization issues and required. The process was technical, clear, and well structured.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a mutex.
Using binary semaphore, implement an n-counting semaphore.
it was chill, it was online the guy out the quesiton on a notepad and asked me how to do it. it was a standard leetcode one of the word search. try to prep those for interviewrs
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Jan 2025
Interview
Phone Screen Interview
Interviewer: Senior Software Engineer
Conclusion: Failed
My suggestion: Focus on question 2 and have your answers prepare to these kinds of question regarding your cv and projects. Leetcode is must, everyone knows that...