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 53.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Jan 2012
Interview
It focused on intelligence problem and programming problem. Some intelligence is very tricky and need so many hints to get to the final steps. Most programming problems are basic compared to many big company
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Five pirates have 100 gold coins. they have to divide up the loot. in order of seniority (suppose pirate 5 is most senior, pirate 1 is least senior), the most senior pirate proposes a distribution of the loot. they vote and if at least 50% accept the proposal, the loot is divided as proposed. otherwise the most senior pirate is executed, and they start over again with the next senior pirate. what solution does the most senior pirate propose? assume they are very intelligent and extremely greedy (and that they would prefer not to die).
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jun 2010
Interview
Had a telephone interview with brain teasers, then a skills assessment interview with 3 different ppl at Bloomberg. The interview went pretty well, they showed me the office afterwards and pay for the hotel stay in midtown manhattan. Questions asked: wrote a pseudo code for sorting algorithm and the like.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Feb 2010
Interview
I had a very negative experience with these recruiters. They called me to the side as I was walking by at a campus job fair, and started asking me technical questions before even asking for my name or resume. After a few, they put me down for an interview. The recruiters then showed up 30 minutes late to the interview, and the actual questions themselves were a nightmare. They asked me stuff that just wasn't feasible to write as code for an interview question, and I somehow made it through the first round and had to come back the next day. They were late once again, and the process repeated. They seemed to get extremely frustrated when I couldn't write the implementation to an entire threadpool in C on the spot. That's not even an exaggeration, it was the first question they asked me.