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 online. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Sep 2015
Interview
It was 3 interviews. The first one was phone interview, it was pretty easy one. The second interview was on Skype and it was a way tougher. The final round was in the office of Bloomberg.
I was happy about the process and I hadn't expected that I will not receive an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In phone interview they asked me firstly about myself, and why would I want to join Bloomberg.
Then they began to ask me some knowledge questions in Java mainly.
At the end I was asked to implement an easy question:
Given an array of real numbers, find the average of all the numbers except the minimum and maximum.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Roanoke, VA) in Oct 2016
Interview
Participated in short on-campus interview involving figuring out if an unsorted array of ints contained a full range between two ints given as arguments of a method. Got an email asking to provide availability for a phone interview.
The first interview I scheduled, I did not receive a phone call. We rescheduled and ended up connecting. Asks a lot about resume and then a question about data structures and algorithms.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Traverse a balanced binary tree and find the greatest sum from one path.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Nov 2016
Interview
First was a phone interview with a software engineer on HackerRank where I was asked a single simple programming question. Next was an onsite interview in New York City where I had two technical interviews back to back concerning problem solving and indepth language knowledge.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Figure out how to maximize profits from a single stock in one week given you can only buy once and sell once.