Financial Applications Developer Interview Experience
February 1, 2013
Positive ExperienceNo Offer
Process
Received a call for an online application as well as through the college career website. Both involved 2:1 interviews.
Interview 1:
Included a couple of behavioral questions:
- What would you bring to the table?
- Why Bloomberg LP?
- How are you interested, being from a non-CSE background?
Technical questions:
- Linear search. Then asked for a better technique. Asked to write code for binary search.
- Given a cube, find the number of cubes on the edges. (e.g., for a 3x3 cube = 20). This required a mathematical formula.
- Don't remember the third question.
Interview 2:
Technical questions:
- Find and print a given substring in a given string.
- Traverse a spirally decreasing path through a 2D matrix.
These interviews were for the NY positions.
Questions
A small one on Linked Lists at the end of the second interview.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 22 interview experiences for the Bloomberg LP Financial Applications Developer role in United States.
Success Rate
0%
Pass Rate
Bloomberg LP's interview process for their Financial Applications Developer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Positive41%
Neutral50%
Negative9%
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Bloomberg LP's Financial Applications Developer interview process in United States.
Bloomberg LP Work Experiences
3.0
It's a gig, not a career
Financial Applications Developer • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
September 27, 2014
Pros: Pantry, seeing and meeting people due to the special "design" of the work environment, sunlight in the buildings, good work-life balance. Good opportunities to make an impact with your work and get to know many people, but don't expect your good work and sweat to get you a promotion or anywhere meaningful.
Cons: Certainly not a place to have a career.
Flat organizational structure has its pros and cons.
Culture can be very petty. They promote "lifers" to managerial positions, some of whom are seriously not employable elsewhere.
Great place to work right out of college, but not after 30.
Pay is not very competitive, but they will pay more to someone else to do the same job when hiring from outside.
Once you're in the company, you virtually have no place for negotiating salary unless you have an offer from somewhere else.
Once you resign, you need to vacate the premises immediately after HR interview, which appears to be about checking boxes and more employee surveys.
5.0
My two cents on Bloomberg
Financial Applications Developer • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
January 7, 2013
Pros: Nice place, nice people, nice work environment.
Cons: Unfortunately, far from money. Training takes a while.
4.0
Smart people paid ridiculous salaries to slog through ancient systems
Financial Applications Developer • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
October 15, 2008
Pros: High pay, free food, beautiful building, great location, and smart people.
Cons: Ancient architecture, no coding standards, no commenting of code, no documentation. Poorly designed and documented, buggy, incomplete GUI framework which you are forced to use. Weird UI standards, little inter-group code sharing, poor common tools.
- 3.0It's a gig, not a careerFinancial Applications Developer • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesSeptember 27, 2014Pros: Pantry, seeing and meeting people due to the special "design" of the work environment, sunlight in the buildings, good work-life balance. Good opportunities to make an impact with your work and get to know many people, but don't expect your good work and sweat to get you a promotion or anywhere meaningful.Cons: Certainly not a place to have a career. Flat organizational structure has its pros and cons. Culture can be very petty. They promote "lifers" to managerial positions, some of whom are seriously not employable elsewhere. Great place to work right out of college, but not after 30. Pay is not very competitive, but they will pay more to someone else to do the same job when hiring from outside. Once you're in the company, you virtually have no place for negotiating salary unless you have an offer from somewhere else. Once you resign, you need to vacate the premises immediately after HR interview, which appears to be about checking boxes and more employee surveys.
- 5.0My two cents on BloombergFinancial Applications Developer • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesJanuary 7, 2013Pros: Nice place, nice people, nice work environment.Cons: Unfortunately, far from money. Training takes a while.
- 4.0Smart people paid ridiculous salaries to slog through ancient systemsFinancial Applications Developer • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesOctober 15, 2008Pros: High pay, free food, beautiful building, great location, and smart people.Cons: Ancient architecture, no coding standards, no commenting of code, no documentation. Poorly designed and documented, buggy, incomplete GUI framework which you are forced to use. Weird UI standards, little inter-group code sharing, poor common tools.
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