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 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 157 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Bloomberg overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Bloomberg as a Software Engineer according to 157 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 39%
One on one interview: 19%
Skills test: 18%
Presentation: 7%
Group panel interview: 6%
Background check: 5%
Personality test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Drug test: 1%
Other: 0%
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Dec 2015
Interview
Interviewer started off with Resume Discussion and OS Related Quick Questions.
then Moved on to some multithreaded related questions as well, i.e. how to handle the cases wherein limited time is there for a needed response
he seemed friendly and did give hints and aided in thinking during the course of interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Send a Tree across a Wire
- i.e. an M -Ary Tree is to be transmitted across a network ,
and the same has to be built on the other side.
void send (Node* n)
{
print n->name, n->level;
foreach(n: children)
send(children);
}
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