Bloomberg Full time Software Developer interview questions
Updated 12 Apr 2022
based on 3 ratings
Difficulty
Average
Experience
Very positive
How others got an interview
67%
Campus recruiting
Campus recruiting
33%
Applied online
Applied online
Interview search
3 interviews
Bloomberg interviews FAQs
Full time 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 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Bloomberg as a Full time Software Developer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
Online test and didn't get through the process. Else, there will onsite interviews. A good grip over computer fundamentals is what it takes to get an interview opportunity at this amazing company.
I applied through university. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
I applied in CDW of campus and got on campus interview one day after. The interview process last 50 minutes and there are 2 interviews. Both of them are nice and give helpful hints if you're stucked. At the beginning they asked what other companies I applied and why Bloomberg. then they asked several C++ questions and 2 algorithms questions.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
In C++, can a class without construtor compile? What will be automatic generated by the compiler for a class? What's the difference between pointer and reference?
Given n stars in the galaxy and a distant d, if the distance between two starts are smaller then d, they are in the same group. Count the total number of groups in the galaxy.
I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Feb 2014
Interview
Applied online through career website, Selected for campus interview. Two interviewers took the first round. Supposed to 45 mins interview but they took it for 1 hour 15 mins. Asked about resume and from there asked about memory optimization, word padding. Gave struct with int and bool in it and asked me to optimize the size of it. Later asked to write code on tree traversing which was easy. But grilled lot on Memory optimization, which i was not really prepare for!