Bloomberg LP

Financial Software Developer Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom

July 1, 2010

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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

Good but not great

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

December 21, 2008

Pros: Good compensation, especially the benefits and paid time off. Some really smart people as peers.

Cons: Career advancement is hard. Management decisions may be hard to fathom.

Good but not great

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

December 21, 2008

Pros: Good compensation, especially the benefits and paid time off. Some really smart people as peers.

Cons: Career advancement is hard. Management decisions may be hard to fathom.

Perks But Toxic Culture

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

February 14, 2011

Pros: Free food, flexible work hours (if you do not work in trading systems), corporate perks, and a health benefits package.

Cons: Backstabbing. Managers behave like dictators with no accountability throughout the chain of command. Outright lies on performance reviews. Performance is proportional to sycophancy. The culture of meritocracy and fairness is being systematically dismantled. Basically, a H-1B sweatshop. Blame the person you don't like instead of the real culprit and get him/her fired.

Perks But Toxic Culture

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

February 14, 2011

Pros: Free food, flexible work hours (if you do not work in trading systems), corporate perks, and a health benefits package.

Cons: Backstabbing. Managers behave like dictators with no accountability throughout the chain of command. Outright lies on performance reviews. Performance is proportional to sycophancy. The culture of meritocracy and fairness is being systematically dismantled. Basically, a H-1B sweatshop. Blame the person you don't like instead of the real culprit and get him/her fired.

pays well, but don't expect too much 'high tech'

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

January 5, 2009

Pros: Pays well, Good work-life balance, Fast-paced work, everyone gets a lot of responsibility, the ability to quickly see the impact of your work

Cons: Legacy software. It's tougher to look for a job elsewhere once you quit due to the extremely proprietary nature of technologies used. Some very smart people, but a lot of people who have been writing GUI code in Fortran too.

pays well, but don't expect too much 'high tech'

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

January 5, 2009

Pros: Pays well, Good work-life balance, Fast-paced work, everyone gets a lot of responsibility, the ability to quickly see the impact of your work

Cons: Legacy software. It's tougher to look for a job elsewhere once you quit due to the extremely proprietary nature of technologies used. Some very smart people, but a lot of people who have been writing GUI code in Fortran too.

Good but not great

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

December 21, 2008

Pros: Good compensation, especially the benefits and paid time off. Some really smart people as peers.

Cons: Career advancement is hard. Management decisions may be hard to fathom.

3.0
Good but not great
Financial Software Developer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
December 21, 2008
Pros: Good compensation, especially the benefits and paid time off. Some really smart people as peers.
Cons: Career advancement is hard. Management decisions may be hard to fathom.

Perks But Toxic Culture

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

February 14, 2011

Pros: Free food, flexible work hours (if you do not work in trading systems), corporate perks, and a health benefits package.

Cons: Backstabbing. Managers behave like dictators with no accountability throughout the chain of command. Outright lies on performance reviews. Performance is proportional to sycophancy. The culture of meritocracy and fairness is being systematically dismantled. Basically, a H-1B sweatshop. Blame the person you don't like instead of the real culprit and get him/her fired.

1.0
Perks But Toxic Culture
Financial Software Developer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
February 14, 2011
Pros: Free food, flexible work hours (if you do not work in trading systems), corporate perks, and a health benefits package.
Cons: Backstabbing. Managers behave like dictators with no accountability throughout the chain of command. Outright lies on performance reviews. Performance is proportional to sycophancy. The culture of meritocracy and fairness is being systematically dismantled. Basically, a H-1B sweatshop. Blame the person you don't like instead of the real culprit and get him/her fired.

pays well, but don't expect too much 'high tech'

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

January 5, 2009

Pros: Pays well, Good work-life balance, Fast-paced work, everyone gets a lot of responsibility, the ability to quickly see the impact of your work

Cons: Legacy software. It's tougher to look for a job elsewhere once you quit due to the extremely proprietary nature of technologies used. Some very smart people, but a lot of people who have been writing GUI code in Fortran too.

3.0
pays well, but don't expect too much 'high tech'
Financial Software Developer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
January 5, 2009
Pros: Pays well, Good work-life balance, Fast-paced work, everyone gets a lot of responsibility, the ability to quickly see the impact of your work
Cons: Legacy software. It's tougher to look for a job elsewhere once you quit due to the extremely proprietary nature of technologies used. Some very smart people, but a lot of people who have been writing GUI code in Fortran too.

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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