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 61% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.9% 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 46 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 46 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 26%
One on one interview: 26%
Skills test: 21%
Personality test: 9%
Presentation: 8%
Group panel interview: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Other: 1%
Drug test: 1%
Background check: 1%
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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.
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Dec 2025
Interview
Standard Behavioral where I was asked about my experiences,
R1: Candy Crush & Swap Adjacent Nodes
R2: Smallest Amount of Changes needed to the two strings an anagram & Subsets 1