Taro Logo

Software Development Programme (Permanent) Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom

July 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

In total, I had 4 interviews.

The first, lasting 45 minutes, took place on Skype. This interview was primarily technical, with various algorithmic questions. I had only one interviewer, who was an engineer at Bloomberg. The interview went as follows:

  • Presentation of the interview.
  • The interviewer introduced themselves.
  • Then, I introduced myself.
  • Technical question.
  • I was able to ask questions.

The second was supposed to last 1h30 and ended up lasting 1h. It was also a technical interview on Skype, with two recruiters this time. Same structure as the first.

The other two interviews took place at their London offices. The first was technical and of the same caliber as the first two, except it began with motivational questions.

The second was an interview with an HR representative, who asked me to talk about each of my experiences/training, specifying why I went there, why I left, and what I did there.

Questions

No questions were asked about finance. However, at each interview, I was asked, "Why Bloomberg?" If the answer given could apply to another company, they would say, "Yes, but all of that could also apply to another company, so why Bloomberg?"

Technical question: "You have a list of integers like [1, 2, 3, 4, 42, 21, 4, 3, 2, 1]. How do you find the first unique integer in the list?" (In this case, 42)

Technical question: "Write a function to determine if a given string parameter is a palindrome." For example, "Kayak" -> true / "bb" -> true / "Glassdoor" -> false.

Write a function to determine if a string contains a palindrome. For example, "Kayaktest" -> true / "patte" -> true / "abcdef" -> false.

This content was translated from French
View Original

Was this helpful?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Bloomberg LP Software Development Programme (Permanent) role in London, United Kingdom.

Success Rate

50%
Pass Rate

Bloomberg LP's interview process for their Software Development Programme (Permanent) roles in London, the United Kingdom is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive100%
Neutral0%
Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Bloomberg LP's Software Development Programme (Permanent) interview process in London, United Kingdom.

Bloomberg LP Work Experiences