Financial Applications Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York
Process
I left my resume with one of the developers who came to campus to give a presentation. The HR called me after a week, inviting me to my first interview when they were visiting our campus again.
1st Round: Brain Teasers & Background Check - I was called in for the second round the very next day.
2nd Round: More brain teasers and a few coding-related questions. It went fine, and I was called in for an in-house interview a week later.
3rd Round: On-site. It was simple, but the interviewer was intimidating and didn't seem to like me for some reason from the moment the interview started. He was 15 minutes late and didn't even answer my questions properly in the end. Obviously, I ended up having a weird feeling at the end of the interview, as I didn't know how it went, even though I could answer a decent chunk of questions.
I got a rejection email after a week.
Advice: Prepare well, as most of the questions asked are standard ones, but it just boils down to who you are interviewing with in the end.
Questions
25 Horse Problem.
Find the square root of a number without using the standard library function.
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Bloomberg LP Work Experiences
- 5.0I've been here for six months and I'm loving itFinancial Applications Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesDecember 1, 2014Pros: The company values its employees a lot. There are many opportunities to learn and build your skills, whether in the finance sector or on the programming side. The management is very helpful and encourages employees to learn. To give an example, those who join the company from a non-computer science background are given 16 weeks of amazing training on Unix, C, and C++.Cons: The compensation is below average, especially for an insanely expensive city like NYC.
- 1.0Don't come to Bloomberg if you have a choiceFinancial Software Developer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesDecember 2, 2012Pros: Very good compensation, good health insurance plan, free snacks and soda, and breakfast.Cons: 1. There's no career growth at all. There's too much political stuff in this company. I've seen many people who don't contribute more than others on the team but get promoted to team leader or manager, just because they have good personal relationships with their boss. 2. It's not very professional in terms of software development. Bloomberg hires a lot of non-professionals to do the software development. Many people never or seldom developed software before they joined this company. So, there's a lot of poor code waiting for you to maintain and fix.
- 4.0Experience very much dependent on teamsSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesAugust 24, 2025Pros: Super chill, good WLB. Free and sometimes VIP access to museums as company perks. Can transfer teams within 6 months. Very good managers/mentors.Cons: - Super slow, one of the very few companies still having things on-prem. - Your experience as a new grad is at the mercy of where they match you. - Not the place for fast learning and good engineering practices.
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