Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - Athens, Greece
November 1, 2018
Positive ExperienceNo Offer
Process
It was a one-hour, two-on-one interview with mostly technical questions.
In the beginning, they asked general things about my CV, the projects I had participated in, any other interests, and my experience working in teams.
Afterwards, they posed a relatively simple algorithmic problem (similar to the medium ones in Cracking the Coding Interview by McDowell) and asked me to write a solution in either Java, C++, C, or Python and run it.
After that, we discussed complexities of computation and data.
Questions
Have you worked in a team in the past?
What projects have you worked on outside of university? Tell us about them.
(After solving the problem) What is the computational complexity in Big-O notation?
Why did you pick X data structure over Y when solving the problem?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Bloomberg LP Software Engineer (Internship) role in Athens, Greece.
Success Rate
50%
Pass Rate
Bloomberg LP's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in Athens, Greece 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 Engineer (Internship) interview process in Athens, Greece.
Bloomberg LP Work Experiences
4.0
Great People, Good Snacks!
Software Engineer (Internship) • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
January 20, 2019
Pros: Loved the people, and the snacks! A great company to do an internship with!
Cons: None I can think of. The pay is fairly good, but maybe not as good as some other companies might provide.
1.0
Management is pathetic, especially those hired straight from college (with only a bachelor's, and that too not in computer science)
Financial Software Developer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
May 13, 2010
Pros: Good snacks.
Compensation is okay, but that's not the only thing any good software developer expects in a job. Also, having good reviews only about the food and compensation for any software development company is shameful.
Cons: Management is pathetic, especially those hired straight from college (with only bachelor's, and not even in computer science) and made team leads within 2-3 years. First, they don't have good and deeper technical knowledge as they don't necessarily have all basic computer science background and understanding of the product as a whole. Having knowledge just about a language (like C/C++) is not the same as having actual product development knowledge. Second, since they are straight out of college, they don't have any outside experience and they feel that they do amazing work, while actually, it's not the case. Also, they are just too random/impetuous and irresponsible in their decisions. These guys just tend to make their Evals/Compensation better by making their team members work the way their managers expect them to. Nowhere in all this is actual product development given more importance. They give more importance to the actual number of hours worked rather than the efficiency and output. Also here, more importance is given to the number of bugs fixed, rather than actually finding the root causes and reducing the number of bugs generated in the first place. That's the reason why sometimes it's more of a mechanical work/mechanical temporary fixes than good, challenging work which requires talent. These team leads don't give any credit to the team members who actually work on it, but rather will try to explain their contribution in any good thing the members do.
It's hard for smart/talented computer science people to strive in the company. The company just needs to maintain their random codebase by continually adding new things without any good design, introducing new bugs in existing things, fixing them to introduce something new... one day that can end up beyond repair!
1.0
The stack is from 80x
Software Development Engineer • Current Employee
April 16, 2023
Pros: There is a good work-life balance.
Cons: The terminal is outdated and old-looking.
- 4.0Great People, Good Snacks!Software Engineer (Internship) • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesJanuary 20, 2019Pros: Loved the people, and the snacks! A great company to do an internship with!Cons: None I can think of. The pay is fairly good, but maybe not as good as some other companies might provide.
- 1.0Management is pathetic, especially those hired straight from college (with only a bachelor's, and that too not in computer science)Financial Software Developer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesMay 13, 2010Pros: Good snacks. Compensation is okay, but that's not the only thing any good software developer expects in a job. Also, having good reviews only about the food and compensation for any software development company is shameful.Cons: Management is pathetic, especially those hired straight from college (with only bachelor's, and not even in computer science) and made team leads within 2-3 years. First, they don't have good and deeper technical knowledge as they don't necessarily have all basic computer science background and understanding of the product as a whole. Having knowledge just about a language (like C/C++) is not the same as having actual product development knowledge. Second, since they are straight out of college, they don't have any outside experience and they feel that they do amazing work, while actually, it's not the case. Also, they are just too random/impetuous and irresponsible in their decisions. These guys just tend to make their Evals/Compensation better by making their team members work the way their managers expect them to. Nowhere in all this is actual product development given more importance. They give more importance to the actual number of hours worked rather than the efficiency and output. Also here, more importance is given to the number of bugs fixed, rather than actually finding the root causes and reducing the number of bugs generated in the first place. That's the reason why sometimes it's more of a mechanical work/mechanical temporary fixes than good, challenging work which requires talent. These team leads don't give any credit to the team members who actually work on it, but rather will try to explain their contribution in any good thing the members do. It's hard for smart/talented computer science people to strive in the company. The company just needs to maintain their random codebase by continually adding new things without any good design, introducing new bugs in existing things, fixing them to introduce something new... one day that can end up beyond repair!
- 1.0The stack is from 80xSoftware Development Engineer • Current EmployeeApril 16, 2023Pros: There is a good work-life balance.Cons: The terminal is outdated and old-looking.
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