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 54.8% 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 1,458 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 1,458 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 online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Oct 2018
Interview
The phone screen had two questions and I was called onsite after that. On the onsite they have 2:1 interviews where both interviewees ask questions. In the first technical round the first interviewer gave me one medium linked list question which I did flawlessly and optimally. The other interviewer said that let me ask you something that I was just discussing with my colleague about his work just 5 minutes before the interview. And he started framing some random question on the board and to this day I do not know what he wanted to ask. The other interviewer also asked question because he was not able to make sense of this nonsensical question being asked. I mean the job of a good interviewer is to come prepared with a question and not only that he should be prepared with hints too just in case the interviewee gets stuck. But this guy was reinventing the wheel. Then in the second round same thing happened, this guy called it a design problem but then asked me to implement a complex algorithm related to it and then changed the problem statement 20 minutes into the interview. I felt that company just lets anybody who is free for the interview, there is no training and no process whatsoever. Nobody cares about candidate experience. After these technical interviews, I was walked out of the building by the HR who could not answer my questions properly and was too busy instagramming on her phone. So rude!
Phone screen went very well, i passed to the onsites and they gave me the problem statement and i proposed a sub-optimal solution. They told to me come up with more optimal solution and didn't give me much time to think about it. They got impatient and gave me a hint. I figured it out and solved the problem, but apparently they thought I needed hints, which I didn't ask for.
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.