Financial Software Developer Interview Experience
February 1, 2014
Positive ExperienceNo Offer
Process
I submitted my resume during the career fair and through the website. Then, I got two interviews on campus. Today, I'm going to NY to have my third interview.
Questions
The first interview had two questions. The first asked me to design an algorithm to draw a spiral with 90-degree turns. The second asked me to design a class to add and delete data from an array.
In the second interview, the first question asked me to design an algorithm to calculate the area of a space. I was given only one function, which returned a vector containing spaces that were randomly split, or 1 if it contained only one piece of space with only one unit of area. The second question was to define how two binary trees are equal, and then write a function to define that.
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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
5.0
A dynamic and fast-paced place
Financial Software Developer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
April 25, 2015
Pros: Besides the great benefits (health care, snacks, dinner), Bloomberg is a good place for you to learn and to work.
It provides good internal mobility if you want to move to a different group and location.
The open environment provides both an opportunity and distractions. The culture encourages teamwork, helping the customers. Since there is no title, the management generally is more accessible, and it is easier to contact someone outside your team.
It does have a work-from-home policy, and the application sometimes depends on your team leader.
Cons: Like many other big companies, there is bureaucracy and internal politics. Sometimes, the accountability can be poor. But since Mike's return, it has changed somewhat to break down the silos and get in touch with the customers more.
The technology on the IT side is not the most advanced, and there are lots of legacies. But there are lots of smart people, and many new technologies are being used in various places.
2.0
Good, but very regulated
Financial Software Developer • Current Employee
London, England, United Kingdom
June 22, 2014
Pros: Good opportunities for climbing the company ladder. Interns are given real production projects that offer value to the company, instead of dummy projects just to check their level of ambition.
Cons: It's very regulated in terms of the number of hours required every week and every day. There are loads of overheads in terms of reports, and when you're allowed to take breaks. It's hard to balance working there with a thriving social life.
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.
- 5.0A dynamic and fast-paced placeFinancial Software Developer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesApril 25, 2015Pros: Besides the great benefits (health care, snacks, dinner), Bloomberg is a good place for you to learn and to work. It provides good internal mobility if you want to move to a different group and location. The open environment provides both an opportunity and distractions. The culture encourages teamwork, helping the customers. Since there is no title, the management generally is more accessible, and it is easier to contact someone outside your team. It does have a work-from-home policy, and the application sometimes depends on your team leader.Cons: Like many other big companies, there is bureaucracy and internal politics. Sometimes, the accountability can be poor. But since Mike's return, it has changed somewhat to break down the silos and get in touch with the customers more. The technology on the IT side is not the most advanced, and there are lots of legacies. But there are lots of smart people, and many new technologies are being used in various places.
- 2.0Good, but very regulatedFinancial Software Developer • Current EmployeeLondon, England, United KingdomJune 22, 2014Pros: Good opportunities for climbing the company ladder. Interns are given real production projects that offer value to the company, instead of dummy projects just to check their level of ambition.Cons: It's very regulated in terms of the number of hours required every week and every day. There are loads of overheads in terms of reports, and when you're allowed to take breaks. It's hard to balance working there with a thriving social life.
- 4.0If you're on the right team, Bloomberg can be very rewardingFinancial Software Developer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesJanuary 7, 2014Pros: 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.
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