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 70.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Developer roles take an average of 60 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 38 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Bloomberg as a Developer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Sep 2017
Interview
Fast, the interviewer I had was unfortunately hard to understand and did not convey the question well. He also did not understand my runtime answers until iterating them for the second or third time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a 10 million length string that doesn't fit in memory, find the unique characters. Implement a fork join algorithm using parallel programming.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Bloomberg (Ithaca, NY) in Jan 2017
Interview
Three rounds of on campus interviews scheduled over several days
Had different interviewer each time, each round, they made an immediate decision on who to send forward to the next round, some technical rounds, some design rounds, some HR rounds
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Diagram a system for streaming stock quote information to subscribers
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
Most of the interview were technical questions with 5 minutes in the end for Q&A. Interviewer was nice. Had to handwrite code on a piece of paper. The questions built on one another.