Financial Software Developer Intern Interview Experience - New York, New York
Process
I met them at a campus career fair at first. The recruiters went directly into technical questions when I handed over my resume. I passed this resume screening and was arranged for an on-campus technical interview. I had two rounds in a row, all typical Bloomberg-style questions. There should have been another round on campus, but the manager was delayed by storms in NYC. I flew to NYC instead. The final round was also a 1:1 interview with an R&D manager. There were no technical questions! It was some kind of brain teaser or problem-solving skills test. This was fully unexpected to me. I mistook it as a technical one and faced some language barriers since I was quite nervous then. In short, I screwed it up. I received the reject email after a week. One more thing to mention, the accommodation was quite generous. They have a nice building, and all the interviewers were so nice, even when I made some silly mistakes.
Questions
Horse race problem.
How many races you need to hold, given a specific number of tracks and horses. There is no stopwatch; the only way is to compare their relative speed.
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Bloomberg LP Work Experiences
- 3.0Pay is good. Brand is good. Technology is ancient. Recruitment is nonsenseFinancial Software Developer Intern • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesNovember 14, 2009Pros: Free snacks and soft drinks. Pay is good. The company really pays a lot of attention to the internship program. The people working there are smart.Cons: Technology is amazingly old. Do you know Comdb? Managers don't care about your feelings as long as you get the work done, regardless of how you achieved it. For an intern, whether you can get a full-time job offer is independent of how your work was during the summer, even if you work hard and your mentor and manager like you.
- 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.
- 5.0Meaningful Project, Great CultureFinancial Software Developer Intern • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesJune 14, 2015Pros: They treat you like a full-time employee. I had a project that was impactful and meaningful. It was my first real foray into actual project design and management. They do everything they can to make sure you have an enjoyable experience and continually improve the internship program each year with larger salaries and more intern involvement.Cons: A few people had less than stellar experiences, but that was more to do with their fit in the company's culture and their team's culture than the company itself.
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