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. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Tokyo) in Apr 2018
Interview
The interview process is moderately difficult, with very real world scenario questions. First couple of rounds are online code pair, then on-site technical and motivational.
Experience of interview is stunning, the technical rounds are decently in depth and will explore your systems, scaleability and reliability understanding. It will put you into real world situations of the problem and test your problem solving ability. Be prepared with technical details of the larger projects you've handled in your career so far. Justify your reasoning and decision in the design making process.
Their office is amazing, and the engineers were very friendly. I was actually quite motivated to accept their offer, however, there was miscommunication with the HR about my compensational expectations which ultimately and unfortunately ended up in me declining their offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
CodePair + Interview:
Questions relating to queue management, TREAP, and questions around Sentence processing using Trie.
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