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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HR round to know about the background. A significant portion of my interview was spent with the interviewer asking me about my previous work. Asked some behavioral questions. Any conflict of interest? how I solved it. Which technology I worked? Am I willing to relocate? What is visa my status
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Dec 2015
Interview
It's a telephone interview. He first asked me why do I choose Bloomberg, and then asked me loads of questions about Java, since I chose Java as my primary language. Questions involve JVM, how does it work, difference between C and Java, Java garbage collector, and heap vs. stack. And then he asked me to code a question.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Nov 2015
Interview
Following a chat with campus recruitment team, I applied online. The online application took less than 15mins. A week later, they emailed me to arrange a technical phone interview. They told me the outcome of the interview within couple of days. Following that, they arranged an on-site interview. The on-site interview consisted of 2 technical interviews (1-1.5hours) and 30mins of HR. They told me the outcome the next day.
Overall, I had a very pleasant experience. Online application was easy and then it was all about the technical stuff. Make sure you try to learn about the data structures as much as possible, and time and space complexity
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
given an array of numbers, find the 2 two largest numbers in the array