Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Bloomberg with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 52% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 29 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Bloomberg overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Bloomberg as a Software Engineer according to 29 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 38%
One on one interview: 19%
Presentation: 12%
Group panel interview: 10%
Skills test: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Background check: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Other: 2%
Personality test: 2%
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I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Princeton, NJ)
Interview
I went through 3 rounds of interviews, two technical with software engineers, one with HR, then the last with the head of R&D himself. I answered all the technical questions efficiently, so I don't think my lack of an offer was due to that. As other interviews post on here, be wary of the "why Bloomberg" question; I'm guessing my answer to that was the reason I was rejected. It's a little hard to not be a bit miffed about it since all signs were going very well, just to get a rejection without a real clue as to why.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Validate a BST; from post, pre and in order traversals make the tree given, solve for the sqrt
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