Bloomberg Senior Software Engineer interview questions

You are on the phone with one to two developers while you are logged into the Hackerrank site. Where they will set up two to three questions of code scripted that you must complete and compile successfully based on the test cases. And while doing that describe how you came to the logic process of getting the answer. If you have testing anxiety this is not a format you can automatically succeed with as a stratagem. The interviewers range from polite and courteous to disinterested and condescending and curt. I developed the insight that no matter how much money they paid you the culture is sink or swim. Especially when I asked the question is the team player culture encouraged there. The answer I received was people are given the resources they can handle. Curt and cut off and unfriendly.There are no team players here for this salary.. which mathematically equates to the probability of high turnover and a high workload. Which is why they have a lot of openings at any one given time. And even then if you pass you are invited on site for four hours to meet personnel but to be tested again in front of a whiteboard TWICE again before you might meet HR at the end for a potential job offer. That is essentially and potentially three tech screens for one job. And maybe for you that is fine. But for me that is nonsense. You should if done right only have to test and tech screen ONCE and only once to show your value.

Applied online and got a recruiter mail the next day to schedule 60min technical phone interview. The day of the phone interview, my interviewer was punctual, and very helpful throughout the session. He gave me a chance to introduce myself and then asked a coding question. I chose to answer in Python and took few iterations to solve the problem. He then asked me to explain verbally how I would solve some extensions to the same problem. When he concluded technical questions, he answered all my questions and seemed like a great guy to work with. All in all, it was a good experience.