Bloomberg LP

Financial Software Developer Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom

January 1, 2011

Neutral ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Process:

CV submission to an online system (no need to fill in an entire application like other companies)
Online Software Test
1st Round Interview: Skills assessment and logical puzzles
2nd Round Interview: Further skills assessment
3rd Round Interview: HR

Observations:

Busy and lively offices
Open-plan offices
Fancy glass meeting rooms
Free food and drinks
Interviewers were very helpful and provided sufficient time to complete exercises without any pressure

Questions

Determining the efficiency of code and devising the most efficient algorithm for certain software problems.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 29 interview experiences for the Bloomberg LP Financial Software Developer role in London, United Kingdom.

Success Rate

38%

Pass Rate

Bloomberg LP's interview process for their Financial Software Developer roles in London, the United Kingdom is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive66%

Neutral31%

Negative3%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Bloomberg LP's Financial Software Developer interview process in London, United Kingdom.

Bloomberg LP Work Experiences

Aggressive Learning, Complicated People

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Pretty aggressive, and you can learn a lot.

Cons: People's relationships are too complicated. Not good for engineering experts.

Aggressive Learning, Complicated People

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Pretty aggressive, and you can learn a lot.

Cons: People's relationships are too complicated. Not good for engineering experts.

Smart Colleagues, High Pressure

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

October 22, 2009

Pros: Overall, they offer a good salary and benefits package with pretty challenging work. You get to work with very smart colleagues, so there is a lot you can learn. They also give you a lot of responsibility from the beginning.

Cons: High job pressure, limited set of technologies (mostly C, C++), and proprietary GUI, DB, etc. Not much social interaction.

Smart Colleagues, High Pressure

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

October 22, 2009

Pros: Overall, they offer a good salary and benefits package with pretty challenging work. You get to work with very smart colleagues, so there is a lot you can learn. They also give you a lot of responsibility from the beginning.

Cons: High job pressure, limited set of technologies (mostly C, C++), and proprietary GUI, DB, etc. Not much social interaction.

Not so good

Financial Software Developer • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: - Good compensation (salary, insurance, etc.) - 20 paid days off per year. - Easier to become a manager than in most other large tech companies.

Cons: Really depends on the team. The following comments apply to most of the teams that I have heard of, but won't be true for everyone for sure. * Tech is really old and there are a lot of trivial work. It's hard to sharpen your tech skills. If you want to pursue a 'geek' career, that's not the place. * Bad work-life balance.

Financial Software Developer • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: - Good compensation (salary, insurance, etc.) - 20 paid days off per year. - Easier to become a manager than in most other large tech companies.

Cons: Really depends on the team. The following comments apply to most of the teams that I have heard of, but won't be true for everyone for sure. * Tech is really old and there are a lot of trivial work. It's hard to sharpen your tech skills. If you want to pursue a 'geek' career, that's not the place. * Bad work-life balance.

Aggressive Learning, Complicated People

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Pretty aggressive, and you can learn a lot.

Cons: People's relationships are too complicated. Not good for engineering experts.

4.0
Aggressive Learning, Complicated People
Financial Software Developer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
June 27, 2012
Pros: Pretty aggressive, and you can learn a lot.
Cons: People's relationships are too complicated. Not good for engineering experts.

Smart Colleagues, High Pressure

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

October 22, 2009

Pros: Overall, they offer a good salary and benefits package with pretty challenging work. You get to work with very smart colleagues, so there is a lot you can learn. They also give you a lot of responsibility from the beginning.

Cons: High job pressure, limited set of technologies (mostly C, C++), and proprietary GUI, DB, etc. Not much social interaction.

3.0
Smart Colleagues, High Pressure
Financial Software Developer • Current Employee
October 22, 2009
Pros: Overall, they offer a good salary and benefits package with pretty challenging work. You get to work with very smart colleagues, so there is a lot you can learn. They also give you a lot of responsibility from the beginning.
Cons: High job pressure, limited set of technologies (mostly C, C++), and proprietary GUI, DB, etc. Not much social interaction.

Not so good

Financial Software Developer • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: - Good compensation (salary, insurance, etc.) - 20 paid days off per year. - Easier to become a manager than in most other large tech companies.

Cons: Really depends on the team. The following comments apply to most of the teams that I have heard of, but won't be true for everyone for sure. * Tech is really old and there are a lot of trivial work. It's hard to sharpen your tech skills. If you want to pursue a 'geek' career, that's not the place. * Bad work-life balance.

2.0
Not so good
Financial Software Developer • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
April 21, 2013
Pros: - Good compensation (salary, insurance, etc.) - 20 paid days off per year. - Easier to become a manager than in most other large tech companies.
Cons: Really depends on the team. The following comments apply to most of the teams that I have heard of, but won't be true for everyone for sure. * Tech is really old and there are a lot of trivial work. It's hard to sharpen your tech skills. If you want to pursue a 'geek' career, that's not the place. * Bad work-life balance.

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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