Bloomberg LP

Financial Software Developer Interview Experience

May 7, 2014

Negative ExperienceGot Offer

Process

The interview process includes one phone interview and one on-site interview with three interviewers (two developers and one manager), plus an HR review. Following the interviews, you will receive an offer, and the company will conduct background checks.

Questions

Why did you apply for this job?

Tell me about a project you did.

List three sorting algorithms you know:

Bubble Sort
Merge Sort
Quick Sort

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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

Financial Software Developer

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Great compensation and benefits, excellent, driven, talented co-workers. If you find finance and software fascinating, it would be hard to find a better match.

Cons: The environment can be stressful at times due to the push to get things to production quickly. Global financial markets operate constantly, 24/7 (or almost), and you can be on call at any time.

Financial Software Developer

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Great compensation and benefits, excellent, driven, talented co-workers. If you find finance and software fascinating, it would be hard to find a better match.

Cons: The environment can be stressful at times due to the push to get things to production quickly. Global financial markets operate constantly, 24/7 (or almost), and you can be on call at any time.

A tiring place to work with a lot of pressure and almost no fun

Financial Software Developer • Former Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

February 14, 2010

Pros: - Free food in the cafeteria - Nice office building - Looks good on your CV - Some exposure to finance - Benefits are okay

Cons: - Long hours, even during training. - Really old technologies used, including JavaScript! - A huge base of legacy code, which is a pain to deal with. - Not enough libraries, code base, or documentation from past, similar projects that could be used. You end up doing everything yourself, again. - You have to program on the Bloomberg terminal, which is a pain.

A tiring place to work with a lot of pressure and almost no fun

Financial Software Developer • Former Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

February 14, 2010

Pros: - Free food in the cafeteria - Nice office building - Looks good on your CV - Some exposure to finance - Benefits are okay

Cons: - Long hours, even during training. - Really old technologies used, including JavaScript! - A huge base of legacy code, which is a pain to deal with. - Not enough libraries, code base, or documentation from past, similar projects that could be used. You end up doing everything yourself, again. - You have to program on the Bloomberg terminal, which is a pain.

Ok place to work

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

Pros: Good breakfast, fruits, vegetables, snacks. Decent pay compared to other financial firms in NYC. Nothing else I could think of.

Cons: Poor work culture. A trade desk type of work environment doesn't seem to help many people. New people can easily get lost.

Ok place to work

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

Pros: Good breakfast, fruits, vegetables, snacks. Decent pay compared to other financial firms in NYC. Nothing else I could think of.

Cons: Poor work culture. A trade desk type of work environment doesn't seem to help many people. New people can easily get lost.

Financial Software Developer

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Great compensation and benefits, excellent, driven, talented co-workers. If you find finance and software fascinating, it would be hard to find a better match.

Cons: The environment can be stressful at times due to the push to get things to production quickly. Global financial markets operate constantly, 24/7 (or almost), and you can be on call at any time.

4.0
Financial Software Developer
Financial Software Developer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
April 17, 2015
Pros: Great compensation and benefits, excellent, driven, talented co-workers. If you find finance and software fascinating, it would be hard to find a better match.
Cons: The environment can be stressful at times due to the push to get things to production quickly. Global financial markets operate constantly, 24/7 (or almost), and you can be on call at any time.

A tiring place to work with a lot of pressure and almost no fun

Financial Software Developer • Former Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

February 14, 2010

Pros: - Free food in the cafeteria - Nice office building - Looks good on your CV - Some exposure to finance - Benefits are okay

Cons: - Long hours, even during training. - Really old technologies used, including JavaScript! - A huge base of legacy code, which is a pain to deal with. - Not enough libraries, code base, or documentation from past, similar projects that could be used. You end up doing everything yourself, again. - You have to program on the Bloomberg terminal, which is a pain.

2.0
A tiring place to work with a lot of pressure and almost no fun
Financial Software Developer • Former Employee
London, England, United Kingdom
February 14, 2010
Pros: - Free food in the cafeteria - Nice office building - Looks good on your CV - Some exposure to finance - Benefits are okay
Cons: - Long hours, even during training. - Really old technologies used, including JavaScript! - A huge base of legacy code, which is a pain to deal with. - Not enough libraries, code base, or documentation from past, similar projects that could be used. You end up doing everything yourself, again. - You have to program on the Bloomberg terminal, which is a pain.

Ok place to work

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

Pros: Good breakfast, fruits, vegetables, snacks. Decent pay compared to other financial firms in NYC. Nothing else I could think of.

Cons: Poor work culture. A trade desk type of work environment doesn't seem to help many people. New people can easily get lost.

3.0
Ok place to work
Financial Software Developer • Current Employee
August 7, 2010
Pros: Good breakfast, fruits, vegetables, snacks. Decent pay compared to other financial firms in NYC. Nothing else I could think of.
Cons: Poor work culture. A trade desk type of work environment doesn't seem to help many people. New people can easily get lost.

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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