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 52.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 5 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Bloomberg overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Bloomberg as a Software Developer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Background check: 50%
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I applied on Bloomberg's career page and received an invitation to participate in the phone interview. The interview required one phone and one computing device. The interviewer asks few questions in the beginning and then proceeds to load interview questions for you to solve.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
Applied online, contacted in a week then scheduled tech phone interview.
It was a typical tech phone interview. Discussed background and skills, then coding questions.
I was continuously interrupted during the coding part. I understand the interviewer was trying to help, but it made it more difficult to finish my thoughts and write code.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Manchester, England) in Jan 2016
Interview
First stage was a phone screen asking about motivational questions. Then, an online live coding test with a software engineer. The interviewer was friendly and overall the interview process was smooth.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the coding questions was to build a linked list in a programming language of your choice.