Financial Software Developer Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom
July 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer
Process
First round of telephone interview with a software engineer, which lasted about 1 hour. Classic questions like:
- Why Bloomberg?
- Heap vs. Stack
- Exceptions
- Multithreading
- Hash functions
Two tasks were assigned on HackerRank.
At the end, I asked him some questions about what he is currently working on and the structure of the team.
Questions
Read the following C++ code and tell me its output. Also, is there anything wrong with it?
cpp
#include
class A { public: A() { foo(); } virtual void foo(int a = 10) { std::cout << "A = " << a << std::endl; } };
class B : public A { public: B() { foo(); } virtual void foo(int b = 20) { std::cout << "B = " << b << std::endl; } };
int main() { A* aPtr = new B(); aPtr->foo(); delete aPtr; return 0; }
Write a function to compare two strings of the same length and find the number of different characters. For example:
myCompare('bond','debt')should return 2.myCompare('xxxx','yyyy')should return 4.
The two input parameters should be const.
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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
3.0
It doesn't matter how well or poorly you do
Financial Software Developer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
June 8, 2012
Pros: Good salary.
Nice building.
Friendly colleagues (for the most part).
Free snacks.
Open communication.
Cons: You don't know what the REAL project requirements are until they are 3 days from due.
Have to work with stupid financial market conventions that make no sense.
The code written here is terrible, and nobody has the time to police it.
2.0
Good first job, but boring and unsatisfying workplace
Financial Software Developer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
May 1, 2012
Pros: Great salary and vacation time.
A 12-week training program brings your coding up to speed.
Good snacks and beverages.
I got to move to NYC and be able to afford it.
Cons: Most technology is relatively old.
A lot of work is maintenance of code written 10, 15, 20 years ago.
Not much room for innovation, especially when all projects are on extremely tight deadlines.
4.0
Pays well, but offers little professional growth for Computer Scientists
Financial Software Developer • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
June 19, 2008
Pros: Compared to other Computer Science job opportunities in New York City and elsewhere in the field, Bloomberg offers some pretty attractive packages. The benefits are great, the workplace is vibrant, and most coworkers are competent.
Cons: The biggest downside is that the company is divorced from Silicon Valley and its ways, making it hard for former Bloomberg employees to return to greener pastures.
The projects are effectively managed by the sales organization, which is eager to please the customers. This often results in making impossible promises, rushing projects, and asking for shortcuts left and right.
As a result, the code is chaotic and archaic, and in bad need of huge rewrites and lots more testing.
Some of the projects are ill-conceived from the start. Several projects in my team that took months to develop received little or no use from customers. The salesperson that asked for the feature, having signed up the client, has no interest in pushing your product.
Your experience varies significantly depending on who your immediate manager is. It may vary as far as the flexibility of your workday. Some managers expect you to be at work no later than 9:00, and some others recognize that the flexibility to choose, within reason, what time you come to work in the morning will affect your output.
- 3.0It doesn't matter how well or poorly you doFinancial Software Developer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesJune 8, 2012Pros: Good salary. Nice building. Friendly colleagues (for the most part). Free snacks. Open communication.Cons: You don't know what the REAL project requirements are until they are 3 days from due. Have to work with stupid financial market conventions that make no sense. The code written here is terrible, and nobody has the time to police it.
- 2.0Good first job, but boring and unsatisfying workplaceFinancial Software Developer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesMay 1, 2012Pros: Great salary and vacation time. A 12-week training program brings your coding up to speed. Good snacks and beverages. I got to move to NYC and be able to afford it.Cons: Most technology is relatively old. A lot of work is maintenance of code written 10, 15, 20 years ago. Not much room for innovation, especially when all projects are on extremely tight deadlines.
- 4.0Pays well, but offers little professional growth for Computer ScientistsFinancial Software Developer • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesJune 19, 2008Pros: Compared to other Computer Science job opportunities in New York City and elsewhere in the field, Bloomberg offers some pretty attractive packages. The benefits are great, the workplace is vibrant, and most coworkers are competent.Cons: The biggest downside is that the company is divorced from Silicon Valley and its ways, making it hard for former Bloomberg employees to return to greener pastures. The projects are effectively managed by the sales organization, which is eager to please the customers. This often results in making impossible promises, rushing projects, and asking for shortcuts left and right. As a result, the code is chaotic and archaic, and in bad need of huge rewrites and lots more testing. Some of the projects are ill-conceived from the start. Several projects in my team that took months to develop received little or no use from customers. The salesperson that asked for the feature, having signed up the client, has no interest in pushing your product. Your experience varies significantly depending on who your immediate manager is. It may vary as far as the flexibility of your workday. Some managers expect you to be at work no later than 9:00, and some others recognize that the flexibility to choose, within reason, what time you come to work in the morning will affect your output.
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