Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Bloomberg with 4 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 54.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Philadelphia, PA) in Feb 2018
Interview
Met Bloomberg at an on-campus career fair. They followed up with on-campus interviews the following week. After first day of interviews they invited some people back for another round the following morning.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Assume you are getting updated information (like stocks), and you only want to keep the five most recent values - what is the best way to do it?
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
Average the questions were basic algorithm concepts. But the interviewer wasn't coherent in his description of the problem and the way he wanted it solved. Knowledge of basic data structures and algorithms would suffice to get through initial rounds
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Feb 2018
Interview
I applied directly from Bloomberg website. The whole process took about 2+ weeks. I had an email confirming for the technical interview over the phone.
My recruiter asked me about my background based on the submitted resume. He had a pretty thick accent and the phone noise made it worse so I could not understand almost 70% of what he was saying. I am still not sure of what he was asking for. I could not answer the two questions he was asking me.
Two days later after this technical phone screening, I got a rejection mail which surely is not surprising.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a simple program to get consecutive timeslots from the schedule.