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Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York

March 1, 2017
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online and was asked to schedule a technical phone interview.

The phone screen was 1 hour long and was on HackerRank. It consisted of 1 coding question and 1 design question.

Next were the onsite interviews. They were scheduled almost a month later and took place in the NY office. The day consisted of 2 technical rounds, after which I heard there were HR interviews, which I did not proceed to.

Questions

In the phone screen, I was asked to add two numbers represented as linked lists and return the result as a linked list. The second question was about how I would design a system that stores stock prices.

In the onsite interview, I was asked a little about my projects. The coding question was quite simple: to sort intervals (I messed up the sorting part). They discussed in depth the different sorts that could be used, their time complexities, and when a particular type of sort would be more beneficial.

The second technical round was more related to data structures. I was asked to design a hashmap with a worst-case retrieval time of O(n).

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 470 interview experiences for the Bloomberg LP Software Engineer role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

12%
Pass Rate

Bloomberg LP's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in New York, New York is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive53%
Neutral28%
Negative19%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Bloomberg LP's Software Engineer interview process in New York, New York.

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