Financial Software Developer Intern Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom
January 1, 2013
Positive ExperienceGot Offer
Process
I applied online by submitting my CV.
I was programmed for a telephone interview, which I managed to pass in late December. The telephone interview was quite pleasant; the interviewer asked me about my interest in joining Bloomberg and posed some technical questions.
I was then appointed for an in-house interview in January. This interview was primarily technical, concluding with a brief chat with the recruiter regarding my motivation to join the company and how Bloomberg differed from other places I had applied to.
Questions
Classic one from them:
You have an array and you want to find the first non-repeating element.
What do you do when your hash table becomes exhausted?
You have a linked list. How would you detect a loop in it, without using DFS or BFS?
How does Java Garbage Collection work? How would you implement garbage collection?
Would Java Bytecode generated by Java 7 work on a JVM made to function on Java 1.0?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Bloomberg LP Financial Software Developer Intern role in London, United Kingdom.
Success Rate
17%
Pass Rate
Bloomberg LP's interview process for their Financial Software Developer Intern roles in London, the United Kingdom is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Positive67%
Neutral17%
Negative17%
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Bloomberg LP's Financial Software Developer Intern interview process in London, United Kingdom.
Bloomberg LP Work Experiences
5.0
Software Developer Intern
Financial Software Developer Intern • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
September 27, 2015
Pros: Very good hours. Nice and helpful team members. My team members are intense during the working hours, but they all keep an 8-hour working schedule. The culture is very nice and welcoming.
Everyone is very willing to help. Great transparency. Flat structure.
Mike Bloomberg came to talk to all the interns. You feel that they are really encouraging new, innovative ideas, being bold, and asking questions.
A lot of very fun intern events (in fact, too many that I sometimes don't have enough time to work XD).
Not hard to get a return offer. I'm not sure why some interns said it's hard, but at least it's not hard for developer interns.
The summer picnic is really AWESOME and a lot of fun. Very good hourly wage for interns too.
Cons: If you don't like New York, the location might be a con. It's also not as geeky as Google or other big tech firms. But everyone is very nice and hardworking. And everyone can easily fit in since people are very diverse there. No free lunch, but there's free dinner if you stay late.
4.0
An old and big company trying to seem like a Silicon Valley startup... with some success, actually
Financial Software Developer Intern • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
September 26, 2013
Pros: Awesome location, snacks, usually interesting work, and good hours.
The employees seem very content and taken care of.
The full-timers were very welcoming to the interns, inviting us to play frisbee after work. The work-life balance was good -- people normally left around 6 pm to do that sort of thing.
The interns had a week of training which also allowed us to socialize, and the intern class ended up pretty close and brave.
Cons: The codebase is largely old and kludgy (like any 30+ year old company).
They spent a week teaching the interns how to use their proprietary stack, though, and it's pretty effective at what it does.
5.0
Bloomberg Summer Intern Review
Financial Software Developer Intern • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
October 15, 2015
Pros: Bloomberg is a great place to gain independence and make decisions. Even interns were given very useful work and were encouraged to try new things and make their own decisions. So Bloomberg really trusts its employees, which allows them to grow.
Cons: One downside of working at Bloomberg is that it is primarily a financial software company. There are several other things, like web and legal, you can develop for, but apart from that, it's mostly financial. It wasn't a downside for me, though, because I really enjoy financial software development.
- 5.0Software Developer InternFinancial Software Developer Intern • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesSeptember 27, 2015Pros: Very good hours. Nice and helpful team members. My team members are intense during the working hours, but they all keep an 8-hour working schedule. The culture is very nice and welcoming. Everyone is very willing to help. Great transparency. Flat structure. Mike Bloomberg came to talk to all the interns. You feel that they are really encouraging new, innovative ideas, being bold, and asking questions. A lot of very fun intern events (in fact, too many that I sometimes don't have enough time to work XD). Not hard to get a return offer. I'm not sure why some interns said it's hard, but at least it's not hard for developer interns. The summer picnic is really AWESOME and a lot of fun. Very good hourly wage for interns too.Cons: If you don't like New York, the location might be a con. It's also not as geeky as Google or other big tech firms. But everyone is very nice and hardworking. And everyone can easily fit in since people are very diverse there. No free lunch, but there's free dinner if you stay late.
- 4.0An old and big company trying to seem like a Silicon Valley startup... with some success, actuallyFinancial Software Developer Intern • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesSeptember 26, 2013Pros: Awesome location, snacks, usually interesting work, and good hours. The employees seem very content and taken care of. The full-timers were very welcoming to the interns, inviting us to play frisbee after work. The work-life balance was good -- people normally left around 6 pm to do that sort of thing. The interns had a week of training which also allowed us to socialize, and the intern class ended up pretty close and brave.Cons: The codebase is largely old and kludgy (like any 30+ year old company). They spent a week teaching the interns how to use their proprietary stack, though, and it's pretty effective at what it does.
- 5.0Bloomberg Summer Intern ReviewFinancial Software Developer Intern • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesOctober 15, 2015Pros: Bloomberg is a great place to gain independence and make decisions. Even interns were given very useful work and were encouraged to try new things and make their own decisions. So Bloomberg really trusts its employees, which allows them to grow.Cons: One downside of working at Bloomberg is that it is primarily a financial software company. There are several other things, like web and legal, you can develop for, but apart from that, it's mostly financial. It wasn't a downside for me, though, because I really enjoy financial software development.
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