Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Bloomberg with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 53.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Bloomberg overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Bloomberg as a Software Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
Phone interview: 50%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Oct 2018
Interview
The process of application was divided into following stages:
1. phone (CV screen)
2. technical interview (HackerRank, data structures)
3. on-site interview
They invited me to go to London after 2nd stage. However, 4 days before my trip (they forgot about time difference, so they called me at 5am!) they ask for one more interview <?>, which was planned 2 days before the planning trip (actually a little bit more than 1 day taking into consideration the flight departure).
The second interview (optimisation, algorithms) was pretty difficult and clearly just to eliminate a candidate.
Pretty rough, but still very unprofessional. On top of that, the following morning, I got mail if they can call me, I responded within 60 seconds that yes please call me, was waiting for their call for 30 mins, and eventually I got automatically generated message they my application is not processing any further. Without any feedback. Hard to plan your university deadlines/meetings/assignments with such organization.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Cannot say, but about the graph and optimizing the flow.
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