Software Engineer 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 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50.3% 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 9 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Bloomberg overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Bloomberg as a Software Engineer according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 31%
One on one interview: 23%
Presentation: 23%
Skills test: 15%
Personality test: 8%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sept 2017
Interview
Fast, the interviewer I had was unfortunately hard to understand and did not convey the question well. He also did not understand my runtime answers until iterating them for the second or third time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a 10 million length string that doesn't fit in memory, find the unique characters. Implement a fork join algorithm using parallel programming.
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