Software Engineer Placement Year 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 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Jan 2024
Interview
The first stage was a 60 minute technical interview. The interview began with an introduction to myself followed by general motivation and behavioural questions. I was then asked a medium LeetCode question. Overall, the interviewer was nice and I think I performed well. Four days later I got an email that I advanced to the second stage.
The second stage was another technical interview. This time, there were two interviewers. The interview began with a brief introduction, followed by questions about projects on my CV. I was then asked a medium LeetCode question. The question was more difficult than the first interview, and although I was able to produce a working solution, there was not enough time for the follow up questions. 30 minutes after the interview I received my rejection email.
Overall, the interviewers were nice and the questions I got were of medium LeetCode difficulty. Overall a good experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interview 1: Write a class that stores stock prices, allowing users to add stock prices, remove most-recently-added stock prices, and get the value of the lowest value stock price stored.
Interview 2: Create a class that allows users to add airport routes. The class should have a method to print all possible routes from a starting airport to a destination airport.
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Nov 2022
Interview
I really enjoyed the early stages of the interview process but decided not to pursue the application given some personal preferences. The first interviewer really gave me an idea of the type of projects I'd be working on at Bloomberg.