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%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Drug test: 1%
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Phone screen - incredibly arrogant and not friendly interviewer. Loudly sipped on coffee while cutting me off during the interview. From what I heard initially, Bloomberg is very friendly and collaborative. I experienced the total opposite.
I interviewed for the NY office, and the guy called in via cellphone LATE with very choppy connections. I had to pivot and adjust to another platform for the interview. Passed all the test cases as I solved the two algorithms/data structures question. Decided this company was not a fit for me, and finally withdrew my application. Personally reached out to the recruiter to ask for interview, got one, and never received any further communication.
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.