Software Engineer New Grad Interview Experience
Process
The initial technical screening was pretty much awful. The interviewer pasted the problem description, which barely explained what needed to be done. He also failed to articulate the expected inputs and outputs. English, being his secondary language, didn’t help either. Through very difficult communication challenges, I distilled what the problem actually meant minutes later. I passed this round and made it to the final round.
During the final round, one of the interviewers had a kid screaming in the background. He even left his desk at a point or two to hush him. They didn’t proceed, even though I had solved both questions. But I’m really glad because, thanks to those reckless Bloomberg employees who don’t really leave their ego at the door and couldn’t really care less about the work they’re doing, I applied for FANG positions and now have a final round. This probably wouldn’t have happened otherwise.
Questions
LeetCode Easy/Medium Design and Graph
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Bloomberg LP Work Experiences
- 5.0WLB and decent paySoftware Engineer New Grad • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesJuly 20, 2023Pros: Good work-life balance and working opportunities.Cons: Sometimes slow and old code. RTO 3 days a week.
- 4.0A comfortable place to workSoftware Engineer New Grad • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesOctober 7, 2024Pros: Benefits are amazing, reputable, and basically dominates the financial data market. It participates in philanthropy actively.Cons: Engineering quality is not good because it’s a data company. Lots of senior engineers are coasting.
- 5.0Great company and great people, but slow to changeSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeJune 13, 2022Pros: If you have a good team and good work (which there is/are plenty of), then you'll love your time at Bloomberg. Contributions to open source are allowed, and there are a number of internally developed technologies that have been open-sourced as well. The company has a very social and open culture where talking with people is encouraged, and people are approachable at all levels and in all roles. Bloomberg's size and problem space means that sometimes there are no open-source alternatives, or that it is necessary to drill down and improve an existing open-source solution. Smaller companies I worked for had to compromise, but Bloomberg is able to invest the time into creating great technologies if you can justify its need.Cons: It's luck of the draw as to which team you will land in. As a senior, you will directly be applying to a team, while as a junior developer, you will first be trained and then have a chance to apply to teams that are hiring. Dealing with work that requires help from other teams runs into issues if that team does not have your work as a high priority on their side. This leads to frustrating workarounds or just project stalls altogether. The social company culture can at times mean you get interrupted a lot by people asking for help with things you own, so be careful what you take ownership of.
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