I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Los Angeles, CA) in Nov 2022
Interview
There were 2 rounds of interview. First was a virtual technical interview of 1 hour. He asked me 2 questions. The second round was in person at my university. there were 2 interviewers who asked me 2 coding questions. It was also of 1 hour, 40 minutes for coding, 10 minutes on resume and 10 minutes for me to ask questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Binary search tree, find the second largest element.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jul 2020
Interview
It was 45 min technical round. I was contacted by a software engineer from one of their teams. He made sure that I was comfortable and then proceeded to the questioning. He first asked me why Bloomberg and then went ahead with the programming question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked to come up with a ticketing system, similar to that of a metro. I should find a best way to find out the average time spent on going from one station to another.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer, University Graduate roles take an average of 26 days to get hired, when considering 3 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, University Graduate according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
Group panel interview: 27%
Skills test: 18%
One on one interview: 18%
Presentation: 9%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -