Software Developer 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 Developer 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 Developer 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 university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Feb 2016
Interview
Talked to them at the career fair. Told them I've never gotten a response back after applying there every year, so they scheduled me right away for an on campus interview. 2 on 1, went well. Immediately scheduled for another on campus interview 2 days later. That went well, immediately scheduled an on site for the following week. On site was great. Had a chat with a manager, including a pretty hard question, but he pointed me in the right direction. HR asked for expected salary, to which I responded with the GlassDoor average, along with the typical behavioral questions. Overall really liked the experience. Every person I talked to was extremely gracious and down to earth. It seems like that shouldn't be a lot to ask for, but you'd be surprised how many companies are full of rude, unprepared people, so I really appreciated the people I met at Bloomberg. Excited to start my career here!
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Set neighbors to the right for each node in a binary tree.
Get average from a bunch of unsorted numbers spread across multiple servers. Then describe how you'd make a function that returns true or false for whether a number is the median. Then finally get the median (no sorting allowed). This problem was by far the hardest, but he gave me a couple small hints that got me going.
15 minutes talking about resume, 45 minutes for 2 medium leetcode style coding questions (using code share), the interviewer was very friendly and communication is even more important than passing all test cases.
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.