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. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sep 2019
Interview
I had to go through two back to back interview on campus. First one, I think I excelled. Second one, the interviewer cancelled my solution approach in few seconds, which I later checked would have lead to the different but correct solution. Then he guided the solution, I think followed just fine and came to the solution. My fear of being perceived as inadequate while guided by the interviewer came true, and I didn't get the offer. Then they told me to improve on my data structure and algorithm skill. At this point I don't know how to improve those!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an expression with parentheses (possibly unmatched) and literals (letters, numbers) sprinkled in between, delete the minimum number of literals/parentheses to make the expression valid.
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