Bloomberg L.P. Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – I submitted my resume on campus and got a call next day. I had an HR round on phone in which they tested my personality and then flew me off to New York.
In new york they took a 1:1 technical interview.Questions started from easy to difficult.
After that there was a round with the Hiring manager who offere me the salary package which i accepted.

Negotiation Details – There was simple salary offer which i accepted.

Interview Details – The first interview was a phone interview and casual. Easy to pass. Second was an on-site interview lasted about 3 hours. Their developers will come in pairs and ask you technical problems to solve. Then their manager will come and ask you about some general questions i.e. what's your career goal etc.

Interview Details – Got an email from a woman requesting a phone interview. Had a phone interview the next week. Questions were mainly expected: tell me about yourself, why did you choose Bloomberg over other internships, tell me about a time you had trouble at a job and how you dealt with it, etc.

Interview Details – Applied for full time software engineering position at Bloomberg through an on-campus career fair. They did all of the rounds on campus. First round with two engineers, whiteboard coding and algorithmic problems. Then, at the end of that interview, found out immediately that I would do 2nd round (same style) with different engineers the next day. Different, easier algorithmic problems, and discussion of company culture, etc. Heard back a couple of weeks later.

Interview Details – 1) Met the Bloomberg reps at career fair, handed resume
2) Got a call a few hours later to schedule an on campus interview two weeks later
3) Went into the on campus interview expecting a standard 1 hour session. (Started at 3 PM, expected to end at 4)
4) Had 4 rounds of interviews, each about a 45 minutes long. First interview was with two software devs, second interview was with 1 software dev, third interview was with a HR, and fourth interview was with a senior programming manager.

Each interview focused heavily on data structures and OOP.

I ended up leaving at around 7 PM, so the interview was four hours long. I think they generally try to keep you for longer if they like you, or they kick you out after the first interview.

Interview Question:
In the first two interviews, the questions were heavily focused on data structures and string manipulations. There was also a lot of pointer/reference trick questions.
The third interview was a HR interview, so very standard HR questions. I.E. Why Bloomberg? What don't you like a Bloomberg?

The fourth interview was the hardest. When I had went in, he said that only one person had made it so far before me. (I came at 3 PM, so atleast 8 people have come and only one made it) The interview questions were very difficult. The interviewer gave me examples of codes and told me to find the most subtle errors and then to optimize the code. It had to do with OOP. The final question he asked me was how I would solve a specific problem in the company. (Not allowed to say)

Overall, I had a good time! Hope to interview with them again in the future.

Interview Details – Asked me three questions.
1. Use a stack to implement a queue.
2. How to decide if a binary tree is balanced.
3. Find the most frequently number in a linked list of ints.

Interview Details – Applied through the website. Interview process consists of 4 stages. First an online assessment test, then two interviews and one on site interview. Mostly mind teasers until the on site interview

Interview Details – I met Bloomberg recruiters at the career fair and dropped my resume. I spoke to them for 5-6 minutes but wasn't sure if they liked me or not. They called me the same day and scheduled an interview for the following day at my school campus. The interview was a 45 minute technical interview led by 2 mid-level employees. I stumbled a lot but they seemed to like me. I got a call back the same day to schedule another interview for the next day. It was another 45 minute technical interview led by other 2 mid-level employees. I did really well in this interview and I was called back the same day again to schedule the final interview for the following week (again on my school campus).
The final interview was suppose to be 45 minutes of behavioral interview and a 45 minute technical interview. The behavioral interview was with an HR person and it was very short, it only took 15 minutes. Then the technical interview was led by a high level employee. The questions were difficult, I failed to give the correct answer but the interviewer seemed to like my thinking process. I was told that they would get back to me in a week and I was offered a job a week later. I was given three weeks to make my decision. They also flew me out to visit Bloomberg before I had to make my decision. Their offer was by far the best offer I received, so I accepted the job offer.

Negotiation Details – There was no negotiation.

Interview Details – The first step was a phone interview with a pair of developers. Without any background or introduction, the interview proceeded for ~40 minute on technical questions on C++/Linux.

The second round was onsite with 4 different sessions: 2 technical, 1 HR, and 1 the senior manager. The technical interviews were with a pair of developers/team leads and some code was expected to be written on a provided pad of paper.

Reason for Declining – Salary was not as competitive.