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 a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Frankfurt am Main) in Nov 2021
Interview
Entry role
1) Technical phone screen - HackerRank live coding session
2) Technical interview
3) System design round
4) Final interview with senior engineer and recruiter
You also get invited to few conferences for candidates in the process. Everybody is very polite and helpful, it really looks like a nice place to work.
I personally do not like the live coding session approach and think some amount of talent can be lost this way due to someone's bad day, bad hour, unlucky question, nervousness etc.
I would propose similar process I've seen in another company:
- HackerRank challenge with time limitation to solve on your own
- technical interview with code review if solution is correct (or you decide to interview anyway)
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.
5 rounds first 3 being leetcode coding ones and the last 2 being behavioral. The first three are the hardest asking mainly taggeed questions and the rest are not that bad