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:
Background check: 50%
Phone interview: 50%
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Phone interview then on site interview. Each about an hour. In the phone interview they asked some simple programming questions mostly about object oriented programming. Also I was asked to explain data structures of my code. There two guys for the on site interview. One of them wasn't very nice and seemed to be in a hurry!
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
Process took two weeks. I was offered with this vacancy by HR agency, then I passed simple C++ test. A week later I was invited to the phone interview. Phone interview lasted 45 minutes, including a few questions about my work organization of my current job and some technical questions. A week after the phone interview I received an automatic message that my application was declined.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The technical questions were the following:
- my work in Kaspersky Lab - unit tests, Agile/Scrum/Kanban, my duties
- definition vs declaration
- overriding vs overloading
- virtual constructors, virtual functions in constructors
- new vs malloc, delete vs free. What happens if we use new with free and malloc with delete?
- virtual destructors
- order of call constructors and desctructors
- polymorphism in C++, virtual tables
- vector, queue, list. complexity of operations.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Jan 2015
Interview
The complete process took 3 weeks. Recruiter contacted to my personal email after checking my profile in Linkedin. The email is sent to a group of candidates asking for their availability for phone screen. Phone screen was really easy, very basic and regular questions on C++ and Java. Prepare well on basic interview questions. You got to solve at least two coding questions to clear first round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Matrix related quite easy. Questions on Object Oriented principles, design techniques. Difference between Java and C++, Garbage Collectors in C++.