Phone Screening: If your application is shortlisted, you may have a phone interview with a recruiter. This conversation covers your background, experience, and interest in the role.
Onsite Interviews: If you pass the phone interviews are invited to Bloomberg's office. Questions regarding your soft skills, teamwork, and how you handle workplace situations.
Final Interview: With a senior manager and representative to discuss your fit within the team and company culture.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are some challenges for the new employee? Why do you like to work here?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg (New York, NY) in Mar 2025
Interview
Matched with two teams and proceeded to the final on-site for both of them. The technical screening was similar to what others have described on here - one to two medium/medium-hard questions to complete. Team may ask some questions on your resume, or just jump right into the problem. There is a very clear disconnect between the recruiters and teams when it comes to the final round - I received a prep guide and had a prep call that very clearly indicated the system design round would be a High Level Design for a distributed system. Come the actual system design interview, the engineers spent about 30 minutes asking questions on my resume and teaching me about financial concepts, leaving me roughy 20 minutes to implement a low level class design for complex financial logic I just learned minutes before in the interview. Had I known the process would be like this, I could have tried to prepare better but I was blindsided due to the inaccuracy of the recruiter prep call and prep guide document. The engineers in my on-site were also completely uninterested in answering thoughtful questions I put together after reading articles and doing research on the company. By the end of the interview, I was no longer interested in working with the team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode medium/medium hard questions, low level design question
I was only able to make it to the second round of interviews. The first interview was basic data structure questions such as the difference between an array/list. They asked me a couple of questions related to how I would clean a dataset, I had machine learning on my resume so they asked about precision/recall. The second round interview was a live coding interview where you had to analyze a dataset.