Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Bloomberg with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 53% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.9% 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 1,459 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 Engineer according to 1,459 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 22%
Skills test: 17%
Group panel interview: 10%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Personality test: 2%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sep 2019
Interview
45 mins on-campus interview with 2 interviewers. Spent about 15 mins going over my resume/projects. While this was nice, one of the interviewers wanted me to explain one of my projects in detail, but he didn't have much background in the topic, so I think it took too long, and took away from my interview/coding question time. They expected to get through 2 algo/coding questions within 30 mins, and then have time for questions, which was a little unreasonable, imo. Also, one of the interviewers guided me towards a wrong solution at first, so that was a bit annoying.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a random string, and a vocab dictionary, find the longest valid word that could be created with the input.
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