Software Engineer 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 64% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 31 days to get hired, when considering 44 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Bloomberg overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Bloomberg as a Software Engineer according to 44 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 32%
One on one interview: 24%
Skills test: 18%
Presentation: 10%
Group panel interview: 8%
Personality test: 4%
Background check: 3%
Other: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (London, England) in Oct 2018
Interview
The process of application was divided into following stages:
1. phone (CV screen)
2. technical interview (HackerRank, data structures)
3. on-site interview
They invited me to go to London after 2nd stage. However, 4 days before my trip (they forgot about time difference, so they called me at 5am!) they ask for one more interview <?>, which was planned 2 days before the planning trip (actually a little bit more than 1 day taking into consideration the flight departure).
The second interview (optimisation, algorithms) was pretty difficult and clearly just to eliminate a candidate.
Pretty rough, but still very unprofessional. On top of that, the following morning, I got mail if they can call me, I responded within 60 seconds that yes please call me, was waiting for their call for 30 mins, and eventually I got automatically generated message they my application is not processing any further. Without any feedback. Hard to plan your university deadlines/meetings/assignments with such organization.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Cannot say, but about the graph and optimizing the flow.
Overall, it was a positive and professional interview experience, though the interviewer was on the stricter side. Unfortunately, I was dealing with an illness and wasn't able to prepare as thoroughly as I wanted to, which left me feeling a bit off throughout the conversation. Despite not feeling my best and facing a tough interviewer, the process was well-structured.
Fairly simple. Phone call then onsite. For onsite it was 10 min office tour follow by 1 hr interview then 1 hours system design and 30 mins manager interview. Interviewers were nice and the recruiter was accommodating.
5 rounds first 3 being leetcode coding ones and the last 2 being behavioral. The first three are the hardest asking mainly taggeed questions and the rest are not that bad