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Updated Feb 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 14, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)
Had a telephone interview with brain teasers, then a skills assessment interview with 3 different ppl at Bloomberg. The interview went pretty well, they showed me the office afterwards and pay for the hotel stay in midtown manhattan. Questions asked: wrote a pseudo code for sorting algorithm and the like.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Financial Products at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 13, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in New York, NY (took 3 weeks)
Consisted of 3 rounds of interviews. the first was mainly basic questions- why bloomberg, why would you fit, etc. Then the second asked more specific questions about skills/knowledge of financial markets, including what is currently going on in the markets, what i think is the most important recent economic development, etc. Third was much more detailed and asked more specifics.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Global Customer Support at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in New York, NY (took 3 days)
Applied online on a Monday and received a request for a phone interview on Wednesday, the interview took place on Friday. I spoke to two team members, one who had been in the Global Customer Support department for a year and worked in training and one who worked in the shadowing program. They were both friendly, engaging, and adept at the screening process. They asked questions concerning my background, strengths/weaknesses, interest in the position, and knowledge of Bloomberg and customer service. While I felt our conversation went well, I received an email from HR later in the day informing me that I was not the best person for the role.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in New York, NY (took a day)
First they asked questions about my background and then I got basic code problem to ask me to print all repeating characters into the form " 'the character' '#' ' the number' ". Then a problem about data structure and the time complexity and how to modify the data structure and get a better performance in time complexity.
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I got the interview through a College or University.
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Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
Talked to Bloomberg at University technical job fair, the recruiter liked me and asked me to come in for an interview later. First round consisted of 2 on 1 interview, fully technical. N people seated at a round table. Remove every Kth person, until only one remains (code solution). Populate the siblings of children in a tree.
Second round was with team leader. Logic based questions, and questions on STL, more problems, and questions about my experiences in the past.
Asked to come in the next day as well for 2 other interviews, one with HR, and the final with another senior developer in R&D. One technical question on a current problem they were facing, why bloomberg, talked about salary and details. Recieved offer immediately after that round.
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Very generous offer, relocation stipend as well. Flown to NY for a tour day.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in New York, NY (took 4+ weeks)
After applying through Bloomberg's website, I received an email about a week or two later saying that I had made it through a round of resume screening and I was asked to take an online skills assessment test. This test consisted of basic IQ sort of things (shape rotations/reflections), or things you might see on the LSAT exam (given 8 statements, what order did the horses place in a race?)
2-3 days after the IQ Test, I was asked to set up a phone interview which took place the following week. Because I don't have a computer science background, they asked "Get to know you" type questions about my past experience, and then asked targeted questions that are basically round-about ways to get you to consider computer science problems.
Within a week I had been asked for an on-site interview, which I went to a few weeks later. This interview consisted of three stages. In the first, I met with three interviewers who asked me questions to gauge my understanding of algorithms and high level design, and they asked me to write down a program in full syntax for the language I had the most experience in (Java). In the second round, I met with a senior member and he asked questions to gauge my interest and fit with the company, as well as to gauge my ability to transition into an IT position from an engineering background (What makes you think you would be happy doing this type of job every day when your experience is primarily in research?) The third and last round consisted of meeting with a man from HR and he asked very general questions, then gave me a super-brief tour around 2 floors of the building.
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Negotiation Details
I did not negotiate. I saw the salary range that had been posted on this website and thought it was fair, so I accepted it.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Financial Applications Engineer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
It took 45 minutes. First, discuss my background, experience, my interest and why I choose Bloomberg. Then, 3 IQ/Intelligence questions.
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The interview consisted of an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Financial Software Summer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 6, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
Was a nice experience, depending upon your language preference one will be asked 30 MCQ's each to be solved in 90 seconds, for me it was C so the question were mainly based on pointers and structures and were mainly like : Find the output or put in the missing instruction.
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The interview consisted of a Skills Test.
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Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 1, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
First had to go through an online IQ-type test, then about a week later was scheduled for a phone interview. The phone interview mostly consisted of technical questions and skill-based knowledge, with a little bit of work history. After successfully getting through the phone interview, I was invited for an on-site interview in New York. Bloomberg took care of all the travel arrangements, including flight, hotel, and a car from the airport. The building was very nice and easy to find. I was given security clearance to go upstairs where I met the HR person who was my contact for the day who brought me to my two technical interviewers. They asked a lot of programming and algorithm questions, and one design questions. Some of the questions were kind of tough, as they were some things that I learned years ago and hadn't needed or touched since. I would recommend that you really brush up on your fundamentals before the interview. I got an e-mail the next day saying that I didn't get the position, so I'm happy that they got back to me so quickly.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Project Manager at Bloomberg L.P.
Posted Feb 6, 2012 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in New York, NY (took a day)
A job was posted online on a Friday evening. On Monday morning at 7am, i submitted my resume via the company website. I possess advanced skills in 100% of the required qualifications.
At 8am, I received an auto reply from HR thanking me for my application. At 9am, I received an 'donotreply' email from HR stating that I would not be being considered as an applicant.
It's incredulous to me that my qualifications could possible have been properly reviewed. This job is either not really available or HR needs to step up it's act...either way, it reflects extremely poor business practices.
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I Applied Online.
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