Software Engineer 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 53.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Londres, Angleterre) in Jul 2011
Interview
I was called by a developer in the London office who was very polite and easy to talk to. I was extremely nervous as this was my first interview in 14 years, which didn't help matters at all. All the questions were programming related, mostly C++ and the usual 'what is the difference between a process and a thread' type questions. A couple of the questions where unsuitable for a phone interview, e.g. the interviewer described a programming block and asked 'what might be wrong with it'. There actually was nothing specifically wrong with what he had described given the wording of the question (seriously!), so I think a different style of question on the same subject should have been asked instead.
I lucked out because although I had answered most of the questions correctly, I had apparently not given enough details. I think I should have been asked at the time 'can you give a bit more detail' to avoid this. Ten weeks later and the job is still advertised, and from what I've heard from recruiters, I think they should review their hiring procedures.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Mar 2011
Interview
first, there was a online test. All the questions are about Java and OO. They are not easy to handle. Followed that, maybe after one week, they replied to me saying they wanted a phone screen interview. That interview lasted half an hour, and questions covered many fields about computer science.