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 through an employee referral. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
I applied Bloomberg through employee referral, and got the technique phone interview in one week. And gave you three weeks to prepare.
Technique phone interview process:
1. Described my internship experience and asked the details of my project.
2. What was the most challenge thing in your internship and how did you solve it
3. Tested my algorithm questions and gave me some test cases to test my codes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. arrange all zeros in an array to the end
2. Add digits
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Feb 2017
Interview
I applied for an Industrial Placement in December and after one months they contacted me for a phone interview. The interviewer was a software engineer. He was very polite during the interview.
After one week from the interview they asked me to do an interview on-site. I sent all what they needed to schedule the interview but after one day they wrote me that all positions for industrial placement 2017 were been filled.
It was unprofessional, because they asked me just one day before to do the second interview.
I applied in-person. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Feb 2017
Interview
telephonic interview 1 hour:--
what will you do if number is greater than current max size in the language - (use array to store the number)
asked me to write a program with to add two integers store in an array format. (not that easy as it looks , took me whole 15 mins to write this...)
we went over hashmap and hashset in java. why it is O(1) to for both. Also how hashcode gives location of element in the array in hashmap, what operation is performed to get it. and so on....
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
given a method which had for loop with 100,000 iteration and calling it to some method with heavy call ( for that exercise they used sleep). all the results from the method call stored in array. how will you improve performance.
question :-- how Messaging framework work. what if two brokers are connected and if one publisher publishes on a QUEUE and two subscribers on 2 different brokers waiting. how message is delivered.