Bloomberg is pretty chill as far as fintech goes. The best strategy is to put in the hard work for the first two years and learn their home-grown ecosystem. Your mileage may vary, but once I've earned my status, I'd get away with ~20 hours of work a week.
Bloomberg is very, very "cliquey" if that's a word. They pride themselves on their FST bootcamp, and you'll quickly learn that most of your senior colleagues have grown up within the company with the same people they did the bootcamp with.
Additionally, note the power dynamics of people on the US work visa. Many of them need to bite their tongue for years while they wait for a green card. Managers get used to quiet people and kind of freak out once a rare disagreeable employee tells them "no".
tl;dr You'll need to play a careful political game if you enter Bbg as a senior tech hire to succeed. The tech stack is homegrown and kind of peculiar, but the chill pace of the company makes up for it.
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It was an average interview. All interviewers were friendly, and my experience was overall positive. I applied on May 10th. After one week, the process started with an HR call, a coding challenge, and a six-hour interview that held five sessions. T
I was contacted by a recruiter in June 2017. I decided to give it a try, as Bloomberg is the only company I would leave my current state for and relocate to NY. * **Phone screening (15 minutes):** This was done by the recruiter to evaluate if I wa
I got a phone interview right after my headhunter submitted my resume. The phone interview mainly included C++, basic data structure questions, and a brainteaser question. A day after the phone interview, I was scheduled for an on-site interview a w
It was an average interview. All interviewers were friendly, and my experience was overall positive. I applied on May 10th. After one week, the process started with an HR call, a coding challenge, and a six-hour interview that held five sessions. T
I was contacted by a recruiter in June 2017. I decided to give it a try, as Bloomberg is the only company I would leave my current state for and relocate to NY. * **Phone screening (15 minutes):** This was done by the recruiter to evaluate if I wa