Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Bloomberg as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Summer Intership and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Summer Intership and roles were rated as the easiest.
I applied online. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Nov 2024
Interview
The interviewer was supportive but questioned some of the words I put when speaking or on my resume. 15 min introduction and questions from resume. 35 minutes of coding questions an easy one. But asked about how dictionaries work( I used one in my solution).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. Valid parenthesis(kind of question).
A 60min technical interview with 15min talking about myself and my background, about 30 minutes providing solutions to 3 coding problems: palindroms, anagrams and a mix of both. Finally 15 min doing a sort of debrief of the interview and asking questions about the company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A function that would return a bool if two words, as parameters were palindroms then anagrams
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg
Interview
Initial call with the recruiter, followed by a 1:1 with a Bloomberg employee. The 1:1 was 20 minutes of behavioral questions and 30-40 minutes on a Hackerrank problem. The next step was the final round. This day is uncomfortable. I had two interviewers, one of whom seemed completely uninterested. At the end of the interview, they force the interviewers to make an immediate decision on whether you will have another round. It was clear my two interviewers were not on the same page. One said, "Umm, okay, I guess HR will follow up with next steps. Is that good for you?" I received a rejection 4 days later.