Bloomberg LP

Financial Software Developer Intern Interview Experience

December 3, 2013

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online and was contacted after a couple of weeks.

Set up a 45-minute phone interview.

The interview included three technical questions, with not much else.

Questions

How to find the top ten scores for a game?

How to shuffle an iPod playlist so you can still use next and back?

What's the difference between C++ and Java for memory management?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 76 interview experiences for the Bloomberg LP Financial Software Developer Intern role in United States.

Success Rate

12%

Pass Rate

Bloomberg LP's interview process for their Financial Software Developer Intern roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive57%

Neutral36%

Negative8%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Bloomberg LP's Financial Software Developer Intern interview process in United States.

Bloomberg LP Work Experiences

Learned a lot, nice teammates

Financial Software Developer Intern • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

November 8, 2011

Pros: Many excellent trainings, both on Finance and Programming. The intern program is nice, and I learned a lot from my teammates.

Cons: The work can be boring if you have been there for many years. A messy codebase makes it hard to change and maintain.

Learned a lot, nice teammates

Financial Software Developer Intern • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

November 8, 2011

Pros: Many excellent trainings, both on Finance and Programming. The intern program is nice, and I learned a lot from my teammates.

Cons: The work can be boring if you have been there for many years. A messy codebase makes it hard to change and maintain.

Bloomberg software internship

Financial Software Developer Intern • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

September 26, 2015

Pros: 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.

Bloomberg software internship

Financial Software Developer Intern • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

September 26, 2015

Pros: 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.

Meaningful Project, Great Culture

Financial Software Developer Intern • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: 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.

Meaningful Project, Great Culture

Financial Software Developer Intern • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: 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.

Learned a lot, nice teammates

Financial Software Developer Intern • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

November 8, 2011

Pros: Many excellent trainings, both on Finance and Programming. The intern program is nice, and I learned a lot from my teammates.

Cons: The work can be boring if you have been there for many years. A messy codebase makes it hard to change and maintain.

4.0
Learned a lot, nice teammates
Financial Software Developer Intern • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
November 8, 2011
Pros: Many excellent trainings, both on Finance and Programming. The intern program is nice, and I learned a lot from my teammates.
Cons: The work can be boring if you have been there for many years. A messy codebase makes it hard to change and maintain.

Bloomberg software internship

Financial Software Developer Intern • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

September 26, 2015

Pros: 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.

3.0
Bloomberg software internship
Financial Software Developer Intern • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
September 26, 2015
Pros: 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.

Meaningful Project, Great Culture

Financial Software Developer Intern • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: 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.

5.0
Meaningful Project, Great Culture
Financial Software Developer Intern • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
June 14, 2015
Pros: 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.

Bloomberg LP Interview Questions

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

Subsets

Given a set of distinct integers, your task is to generate all possible subsets (the power set). The solution should not contain duplicate subsets.

ArraysRecursionBit Manipulation

Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

Find the length of the longest substring within a given string that contains no repeating characters. The substring must be contiguous.

StringsTwo PointersSliding Windows

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