Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York
Process
This is for the 2017 Software Engineer position.
The interview process involved a 45-minute technical phone interview, followed by an in-person interview.
The interviewer failed to call me twice, which caused the process to take longer. The recruiter handled everything via email, which was not ideal.
I wish I had an initial call to understand what the job entails and how the program is set up, and to ask questions before the technical phone screen.
I would not interview with this company again because the entire interview process was messy. I was disappointed, as I like the company.
I found out that the first three months of the job are entirely training (getting to know the company, learning some languages and technologies). Following that, there are presentations from different teams. You then have to select one which you would like to join after training.
Questions
Why Bloomberg?
Tell me about yourself and what you do.
Given 11000111, output how far each 0 is from the current index. So the output should be 21000123.
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Bloomberg LP Work Experiences
- 4.0Stable But Lagging PaySoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesSeptember 19, 2025Pros: Mostly a stable company through market volatility.Cons: Don't get any ESOPs, so you fall behind on average pay after a few years.
- 2.0Go Somewhere Where You Can LearnSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesOctober 29, 2018Pros: - Great pay - Great benefits (no-fee health insurance, access to NYC & London museums for free) - 3-month new hire training program is a good opportunity to make some friendsCons: Everything at Bloomberg is legacy. Code runs directly on hardware, on machines in the data farms. Some servers are IBM and Solaris, not Linux, and don’t even support C++ compilers from 2011. Most senior devs have been in the company since college and haven’t learned anything new about the world of coding for years. It is tough when your team lead is both a friendly person but also hasn’t heard of basic coding tools, like `curl`. I have friends who entered the company with me just a year or so ago out of college and spend most of their time writing Fortran. (If you don’t know what Fortran is, and you’re under 40, that’s probably a good thing.) Bloomberg Terminal frontend apps are written in an esoteric JavaScript framework called Rapid, which is a major headache and won’t help you build skills in any modern frontend framework. Bloomberg is a good first job out of college in that you get great pay and great benefits, and can use that to establish yourself in a new city (probably NYC) and save up some money/pay off loans. But if you care about growing as a developer, and if you will be unhappy in an organization where people aren’t passionate and there are few opportunities to really learn, leave quickly.
- 5.0Love working hereSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesApril 30, 2024Pros: Great work-life balance here.Cons: Not as many perks as a traditional tech company.
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