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 2 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jan 2023
Interview
1. Recruiter call - Possible to interview with one or two teams simultaneously. Interviews are independent of each other. 2. One hour leetcode 3. 3 hours - One hour leetcode. One hour leetcode or system design One hour talking to the manager about whatever they feel like. You must do the top 40-60 problems on leetcode under the Bloomberg category and memorize the top algorithms. The interviewers are very binary in the sense that if your solution isn't the most optimal, then they'll push hard for you to figure out the most optimal solution. i.e., using binary search when a heap would have been better. If you get a problem you haven't seen before, then it's unlikely you'll pass, but luckily they just reuse the top problems on leetcode.
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Question 1
Sort on leetcode by Bloomberg and most frequent. Most likely one of those from the top 20.
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