Financial Software Developer Intern Interview Experience - New York, New York
Process
Applied online through the university's career portal.
I had an initial 45-minute phone interview which included pretty basic syntax-based and algorithm questions. No coding was involved in this interview.
Then, I went to New York 10 days after my phone interview.
I had an interview there with two employees from the R&D team. They always start the interview with some general and behavioral questions, such as:
- Why Bloomberg?
- Your biggest accomplishment till now, etc.
Questions
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Why Bloomberg?
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What is one thing you would like to change about Bloomberg?
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They will grill you on your resume. Know everything that you write on it.
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Implementing a queue using a stack library in C?
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A question on BFS.
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A puzzle: A mobile phone company is launching a new product (mobile phone) which they say is unbreakable if it's thrown from a certain height (a threshold). You are given 2 phones. Find the threshold height of the product if you can throw it from any floor of a 100-story building.
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Interview Statistics
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Success Rate
Bloomberg LP's interview process for their Financial Software Developer Intern roles in New York, New York is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
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Bloomberg LP Work Experiences
- 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.
- 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.
- 3.0Bloomberg software internshipFinancial Software Developer Intern • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesSeptember 26, 2015Pros: Very organized internship, with training at the beginning for one and a half weeks. Work was put into production.Cons: The team's work wasn't very exciting, but the team was great and welcoming. Company culture is somewhat intense, maybe too much so.
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