Bloomberg LP

Financial Software Developer Interview Experience

October 1, 2012

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Campus three round

Questions

Nothing was difficult; most data structures and algorithms could be searched for on websites. There were three rounds, and I went through all of them. I finally received a rejection. I have no idea why.

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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

Attention: SDE holding H1B visa

Financial Software Developer • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

October 15, 2015

Pros: * Fancy office * Fully stocked snack bar

Cons: * Long hours. * Mandated working hours. * Old technologies. * If you hold an H1B visa as an SDE, do not work here if you want to switch companies before you get your green card. Bloomberg won't provide any employment verification letters as needed for the green card process if you switched to another company.

Attention: SDE holding H1B visa

Financial Software Developer • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

October 15, 2015

Pros: * Fancy office * Fully stocked snack bar

Cons: * Long hours. * Mandated working hours. * Old technologies. * If you hold an H1B visa as an SDE, do not work here if you want to switch companies before you get your green card. Bloomberg won't provide any employment verification letters as needed for the green card process if you switched to another company.

Good Training, Exploitative Management

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

October 21, 2010

Pros: A great place to work at the intersection of finance and technology. A great building and perks in New York City. They provide in-house training for employees and offer involvement in social activities.

Cons: Management is not supportive of international employees in their visa applications and green card applications. They try to exploit people who need sponsorship.

Good Training, Exploitative Management

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

October 21, 2010

Pros: A great place to work at the intersection of finance and technology. A great building and perks in New York City. They provide in-house training for employees and offer involvement in social activities.

Cons: Management is not supportive of international employees in their visa applications and green card applications. They try to exploit people who need sponsorship.

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.

Attention: SDE holding H1B visa

Financial Software Developer • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

October 15, 2015

Pros: * Fancy office * Fully stocked snack bar

Cons: * Long hours. * Mandated working hours. * Old technologies. * If you hold an H1B visa as an SDE, do not work here if you want to switch companies before you get your green card. Bloomberg won't provide any employment verification letters as needed for the green card process if you switched to another company.

2.0
Attention: SDE holding H1B visa
Financial Software Developer • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
October 15, 2015
Pros: * Fancy office * Fully stocked snack bar
Cons: * Long hours. * Mandated working hours. * Old technologies. * If you hold an H1B visa as an SDE, do not work here if you want to switch companies before you get your green card. Bloomberg won't provide any employment verification letters as needed for the green card process if you switched to another company.

Good Training, Exploitative Management

Financial Software Developer • Current Employee

October 21, 2010

Pros: A great place to work at the intersection of finance and technology. A great building and perks in New York City. They provide in-house training for employees and offer involvement in social activities.

Cons: Management is not supportive of international employees in their visa applications and green card applications. They try to exploit people who need sponsorship.

3.0
Good Training, Exploitative Management
Financial Software Developer • Current Employee
October 21, 2010
Pros: A great place to work at the intersection of finance and technology. A great building and perks in New York City. They provide in-house training for employees and offer involvement in social activities.
Cons: Management is not supportive of international employees in their visa applications and green card applications. They try to exploit people who need sponsorship.

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.

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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