Bloomberg LP

Financial Software Developer Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom

January 1, 2011

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Meet junior developers first, then senior developers, and finally HR.

Straight to the point, no waste of time.

A lot of detailed programming questions and some brain teasers.

Behavioral questions from HR as well.

Questions

Coding questions and brain teasers.

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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

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.

Excellent client focus and good practices

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

September 18, 2010

Pros: Bloomberg LP clients are the most important people at Bloomberg LP, without exception. Implements industry standard best practices and more. Various benefits as mentioned in many other reviews.

Cons: Frequent changes in library dependencies result in reduced productivity. Too much time is wasted getting your executable to link. There are an endless list of common technologies used, such as C++, Javascript, Unix, XML, SQL, and GTK, but there is still too much proprietary software and tools. In most teams, your performance is measured in terms of how well you are able to use Bloomberg-specific technologies, i.e., your mastery of Bloomberg-specific technologies.

Excellent client focus and good practices

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

September 18, 2010

Pros: Bloomberg LP clients are the most important people at Bloomberg LP, without exception. Implements industry standard best practices and more. Various benefits as mentioned in many other reviews.

Cons: Frequent changes in library dependencies result in reduced productivity. Too much time is wasted getting your executable to link. There are an endless list of common technologies used, such as C++, Javascript, Unix, XML, SQL, and GTK, but there is still too much proprietary software and tools. In most teams, your performance is measured in terms of how well you are able to use Bloomberg-specific technologies, i.e., your mastery of Bloomberg-specific technologies.

Nightmare on Lexington Avenue

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Pay is extremely good -- twice what anybody else is offering.

Cons: Brutal hours. People die here from overwork. Be prepared to work 14-hour days and weekends. Utterly ossified management, micromanagement, downright harassment, and brutally invasive oversight. Zero flexibility on rules or hours. Complete contempt for employees, with no credit for ideas. Incredibly bad design and obsolete technology.

Nightmare on Lexington Avenue

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Pay is extremely good -- twice what anybody else is offering.

Cons: Brutal hours. People die here from overwork. Be prepared to work 14-hour days and weekends. Utterly ossified management, micromanagement, downright harassment, and brutally invasive oversight. Zero flexibility on rules or hours. Complete contempt for employees, with no credit for ideas. Incredibly bad design and obsolete technology.

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.

Excellent client focus and good practices

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

September 18, 2010

Pros: Bloomberg LP clients are the most important people at Bloomberg LP, without exception. Implements industry standard best practices and more. Various benefits as mentioned in many other reviews.

Cons: Frequent changes in library dependencies result in reduced productivity. Too much time is wasted getting your executable to link. There are an endless list of common technologies used, such as C++, Javascript, Unix, XML, SQL, and GTK, but there is still too much proprietary software and tools. In most teams, your performance is measured in terms of how well you are able to use Bloomberg-specific technologies, i.e., your mastery of Bloomberg-specific technologies.

2.0
Excellent client focus and good practices
Financial Software Developer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
September 18, 2010
Pros: Bloomberg LP clients are the most important people at Bloomberg LP, without exception. Implements industry standard best practices and more. Various benefits as mentioned in many other reviews.
Cons: Frequent changes in library dependencies result in reduced productivity. Too much time is wasted getting your executable to link. There are an endless list of common technologies used, such as C++, Javascript, Unix, XML, SQL, and GTK, but there is still too much proprietary software and tools. In most teams, your performance is measured in terms of how well you are able to use Bloomberg-specific technologies, i.e., your mastery of Bloomberg-specific technologies.

Nightmare on Lexington Avenue

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Pay is extremely good -- twice what anybody else is offering.

Cons: Brutal hours. People die here from overwork. Be prepared to work 14-hour days and weekends. Utterly ossified management, micromanagement, downright harassment, and brutally invasive oversight. Zero flexibility on rules or hours. Complete contempt for employees, with no credit for ideas. Incredibly bad design and obsolete technology.

1.0
Nightmare on Lexington Avenue
Financial Software Developer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
June 21, 2009
Pros: Pay is extremely good -- twice what anybody else is offering.
Cons: Brutal hours. People die here from overwork. Be prepared to work 14-hour days and weekends. Utterly ossified management, micromanagement, downright harassment, and brutally invasive oversight. Zero flexibility on rules or hours. Complete contempt for employees, with no credit for ideas. Incredibly bad design and obsolete technology.

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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