I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Sep 2023
Interview
I did an on-campus coffee chat(it was also behavioral + walk me through your resume type of interview) and then received a technical interview offer 2 weeks after the coffee chat.
Not too difficult. Study DSA fundamentals and your leetcode basics and remember to put time into company studying and STAR. Fully attainable if you put in the time. Went through 3 technical rounds (5 leetcode style total), and 2 behavioral, passed all rounds but got headcounted. Very responsive team and chill interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a weighted binary tree - what is the path with the maximum sum? Follow up - what if we can start and end anywhere in the tree?
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY)
Interview
First round was given a leetcode hard (only 1 question), similar to the N-Queens problem. Study backtracking, BFS, DFS, and matrix type problems. Some standard behavioral questions. Interview was 45 mins long.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Bloomberg? If you had all the time in the world to work on a past project, what would you add/do?
The interview process was made out of 5 rounds ( 2 DSA, 1 system design, 1 recruiter and 1 manager talk ). One of the DSA interviews and the system design interview were in the same day.
Software Engineering Intern 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 62% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineering Intern roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 47 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 Intern according to 47 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 26%
Phone interview: 25%
Skills test: 21%
Personality test: 9%
Presentation: 8%
Group panel interview: 6%
Other: 1%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Drug test: 1%
Background check: 1%
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