Bloomberg LP

Financial Software Developer Interview Experience

April 18, 2014

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online and was contacted a few days later asking to schedule a phone interview for the following week.

The interviewer was very nice. They asked mostly about my background and a few simple data structures questions.

Questions

How is memory stored?

Difference between an array and a linked list?

Binary search tree traversal

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 219 interview experiences for the Bloomberg LP Financial Software Developer role in United States.

Success Rate

25%

Pass Rate

Bloomberg LP's interview process for their Financial Software Developer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive46%

Neutral39%

Negative15%

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

Bloomberg LP Work Experiences

If you're on the right team, Bloomberg can be very rewarding

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

January 7, 2014

Pros: If you land on the right team, there is a lot of flexibility and great work-life balance. Fortunately, the percentage of the "good" teams is growing steadily, especially within the Derivatives and Infrastructure departments of R&D. There are a lot of opportunities to grow professionally, but you need to forge your own path. Very intelligent colleagues, great ideas. Free snacks and drinks/juice all day, every day. Excellent compensation and benefits.

Cons: A lot of red tape (as with many large and successful corporations), meaning that great ideas need a lot of persistence to really take off, or else they will be swept aside for the next money grab enhancement. Some old technologies and implementations are so established that they're tough to supplant with smarter/faster/newer ones. Open floorplan. While it fosters collaboration, concentration is very easily broken.

If you're on the right team, Bloomberg can be very rewarding

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

January 7, 2014

Pros: If you land on the right team, there is a lot of flexibility and great work-life balance. Fortunately, the percentage of the "good" teams is growing steadily, especially within the Derivatives and Infrastructure departments of R&D. There are a lot of opportunities to grow professionally, but you need to forge your own path. Very intelligent colleagues, great ideas. Free snacks and drinks/juice all day, every day. Excellent compensation and benefits.

Cons: A lot of red tape (as with many large and successful corporations), meaning that great ideas need a lot of persistence to really take off, or else they will be swept aside for the next money grab enhancement. Some old technologies and implementations are so established that they're tough to supplant with smarter/faster/newer ones. Open floorplan. While it fosters collaboration, concentration is very easily broken.

Don't go there if you are a computer science major

Financial Software Developer • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Good pay Free food Good office location

Cons: No cubes, everyone face to face. Long, long hours. The technology they use is old, not good for CS-majored graduates once you exit.

Don't go there if you are a computer science major

Financial Software Developer • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Good pay Free food Good office location

Cons: No cubes, everyone face to face. Long, long hours. The technology they use is old, not good for CS-majored graduates once you exit.

Great Learning, Pick Team Wisely

Financial Software Developer • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

November 23, 2015

Pros: Bloomberg is full of opportunities for people to learn about a variety of fields. The fact that Bloomberg's main business is finance allows you to learn about it, if you have an interest, which I found incredibly valuable. Also, given the many Bloomberg verticals, there are tons of opportunities for mobility within the company, which are also great learning opportunities.

Cons: Be sure to pick the right team. As in any big company, there are lots of good people, but there are also some teams which you want to avoid. Make sure to pick well.

Great Learning, Pick Team Wisely

Financial Software Developer • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

November 23, 2015

Pros: Bloomberg is full of opportunities for people to learn about a variety of fields. The fact that Bloomberg's main business is finance allows you to learn about it, if you have an interest, which I found incredibly valuable. Also, given the many Bloomberg verticals, there are tons of opportunities for mobility within the company, which are also great learning opportunities.

Cons: Be sure to pick the right team. As in any big company, there are lots of good people, but there are also some teams which you want to avoid. Make sure to pick well.

If you're on the right team, Bloomberg can be very rewarding

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

January 7, 2014

Pros: If you land on the right team, there is a lot of flexibility and great work-life balance. Fortunately, the percentage of the "good" teams is growing steadily, especially within the Derivatives and Infrastructure departments of R&D. There are a lot of opportunities to grow professionally, but you need to forge your own path. Very intelligent colleagues, great ideas. Free snacks and drinks/juice all day, every day. Excellent compensation and benefits.

Cons: A lot of red tape (as with many large and successful corporations), meaning that great ideas need a lot of persistence to really take off, or else they will be swept aside for the next money grab enhancement. Some old technologies and implementations are so established that they're tough to supplant with smarter/faster/newer ones. Open floorplan. While it fosters collaboration, concentration is very easily broken.

4.0
If you're on the right team, Bloomberg can be very rewarding
Financial Software Developer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
January 7, 2014
Pros: If you land on the right team, there is a lot of flexibility and great work-life balance. Fortunately, the percentage of the "good" teams is growing steadily, especially within the Derivatives and Infrastructure departments of R&D. There are a lot of opportunities to grow professionally, but you need to forge your own path. Very intelligent colleagues, great ideas. Free snacks and drinks/juice all day, every day. Excellent compensation and benefits.
Cons: A lot of red tape (as with many large and successful corporations), meaning that great ideas need a lot of persistence to really take off, or else they will be swept aside for the next money grab enhancement. Some old technologies and implementations are so established that they're tough to supplant with smarter/faster/newer ones. Open floorplan. While it fosters collaboration, concentration is very easily broken.

Don't go there if you are a computer science major

Financial Software Developer • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Good pay Free food Good office location

Cons: No cubes, everyone face to face. Long, long hours. The technology they use is old, not good for CS-majored graduates once you exit.

1.0
Don't go there if you are a computer science major
Financial Software Developer • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
June 9, 2010
Pros: Good pay Free food Good office location
Cons: No cubes, everyone face to face. Long, long hours. The technology they use is old, not good for CS-majored graduates once you exit.

Great Learning, Pick Team Wisely

Financial Software Developer • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

November 23, 2015

Pros: Bloomberg is full of opportunities for people to learn about a variety of fields. The fact that Bloomberg's main business is finance allows you to learn about it, if you have an interest, which I found incredibly valuable. Also, given the many Bloomberg verticals, there are tons of opportunities for mobility within the company, which are also great learning opportunities.

Cons: Be sure to pick the right team. As in any big company, there are lots of good people, but there are also some teams which you want to avoid. Make sure to pick well.

4.0
Great Learning, Pick Team Wisely
Financial Software Developer • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
November 23, 2015
Pros: Bloomberg is full of opportunities for people to learn about a variety of fields. The fact that Bloomberg's main business is finance allows you to learn about it, if you have an interest, which I found incredibly valuable. Also, given the many Bloomberg verticals, there are tons of opportunities for mobility within the company, which are also great learning opportunities.
Cons: Be sure to pick the right team. As in any big company, there are lots of good people, but there are also some teams which you want to avoid. Make sure to pick well.

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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