Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York
Process
The interview process for Bloomberg is a long and detailed one. For me, there was an online aptitude test; the top 5% or so would then proceed to the phone interview stage.
There were three phone interviews, each becoming increasingly more complex, covering typical C++ questions relating to polymorphism, inheritance, access types, etc. If you made it through these, you would then be invited to New York.
Here is where my impression of the process was soured. I'm a senior software engineer being interviewed with a view to working on parallel processing development, something that I have a lot of experience with. I was, however, interviewed by two junior engineers asking college-level questions, far, far lower in complexity than anything in the phone interviews or aptitude test.
Questions
During the phone interviews, questions were asked about the different access types and how they worked with inheritance, particularly 'protected' inheritance.
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Success 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.
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Bloomberg LP Work Experiences
- 5.0Good Culture, Limited GrowthSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesApril 17, 2022Pros: They provide decent benefits and a great culture.Cons: There is not much vertical mobility.
- 5.0Great Mentors, Underwhelming ProjectsSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesOctober 6, 2025Pros: Good mentors Non-hostile environments Nice intern eventsCons: The projects you work on can be underwhelming.
- 2.0Previous Full-time Software EngineerSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesFebruary 11, 2017Pros: Good benefit. High impact in the financial market. Good gateway from CS to fin-tech & hedge fund. If you have a pure CS or engineering background and a great interest in finance, this is the right place to work. With a few years of experience here, you can have access to almost all types of financial/quant/hedge fund developer roles. Good training classes for new grad students. Good immigration policy for non-US employees.Cons: Not a good place if you are a tech person. This is a place where argument wins over code. Good interpersonal skills are much more important than your code quality. As a developer, you will feel you are always second-tier in the company and have little control over the product, but must follow business and sales. Few of the upper management have a tech background, so they do not know much about how to improve the efficiency of developers by improving the overall software infrastructure. Most of the developers work hard and are generally smart, but the overall productivity is quite low. One example is that we "reinvent the wheel" a lot. For instance, for almost every team that uses Python, they write their own Python utility module. Let's say there are 100 teams that use Python, and there could be 100 different versions of a `parseTimeInput` method in their own Git repositories. I have no idea why the whole company does not maintain only one general Python library that all teams can use. In this place, it is very hard to get rewarded or promoted by just doing a great job in coding. Communication and other interpersonal skills weigh more than tech skills. That is why there are more upper-level managers with business and non-tech backgrounds in the development departments.
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