Good working environment and colleagues. The office itself is quite nice and a big kitchen with all sorts of snacks.
Most of the senior management have their positions solely because they joined Bloomberg from the beginning. They do not have a lot of exposure and experience of the rest of the world and are not very competent in management and technology. Unfortunately, they also have a lot of authority and ego.
This causes mistreatment towards lower-level staff and policies that don't make a whole lot of sense. If one does not gel well with the management layer, no matter how competent you are, your career and salary will not progress that far.
Senior management positions should be based on competency, not on how many years one has been in the company.
Coding stage as a screen call, followed by two more coding stages (with LeetCode ranking from medium to hard). Then, an architectural interview where you design a system on a whiteboard, and finally, a behavioral section.
I was given two LeetCode problems of medium difficulty. I was able to solve the first, and while in the process of solving the second, I was interrupted by the interviewer. He pushed on his solution, questioning if I was taking too long. In the midst
A headhunter reached out to me on LinkedIn, and after two weeks, I had a phone interview at Bloomberg. I knew I had failed the interview within the first minute after the interviewer called me. He called my cell phone using a Cisco desk phone in a m
Coding stage as a screen call, followed by two more coding stages (with LeetCode ranking from medium to hard). Then, an architectural interview where you design a system on a whiteboard, and finally, a behavioral section.
I was given two LeetCode problems of medium difficulty. I was able to solve the first, and while in the process of solving the second, I was interrupted by the interviewer. He pushed on his solution, questioning if I was taking too long. In the midst
A headhunter reached out to me on LinkedIn, and after two weeks, I had a phone interview at Bloomberg. I knew I had failed the interview within the first minute after the interviewer called me. He called my cell phone using a Cisco desk phone in a m