Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Bloomberg with 4 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 54.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
There was 1 hacker-rank coding round which was easy and then 4 onsite rounds out of which 2 were technical and the other 2 were behavioral with senior manager and HR to get a grasp of the cultural git and expectations and other formalities
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
round 1
1. Get the most trending tweet from a feed of user tweets
2. word wrapping problem
round 2
design the k most visited URLs for chrome
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londres, Angleterre) in Sep 2018
Interview
1 phone interview, 1 video call interview, 1 day on site (6 hours)
coding in interactive session on all three. Brain teasers on 3rd interview.
Offer of > £175k for first year total compensation
Turned it down because
- 45 hour/week contract (defended by being "standard")
- requirement to work weekends/holidays as needed without compensation
- requirement to sign opt out of UK working law and agree to above 48 hours per week average
- Glassdoor reviews all confirm the above intent results in no work/life balance
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Atlanta, GA) in Oct 2018
Interview
3 on campus interviews . First 2 rounds are coding challenges and last round is HR and senior hiring managers. Coding challenges are pretty easy and I got rejected because of system design from the last round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Given a string , sorted under 2 conditions
1) Frequency of the letter
2) If frequency is a tie, then sorted in alphabetical order.